Time and Sense: Proust and the Experience of Literature - Paperbackby Julia Kristeva (Author), Ross Guberman (Translator) Not only a meditation on Proust, this is a commentary on how the experience of literature is manifested in time and sensation. Kristeva uses Proust as a starting point to reflect upon broader notions of character, time, sensation, metaphor, and history. Author Biography Julia Kristeva, internationally known psychoanalyst and critic, is Professor of Linguistics at the University de Paris VII. She