| Revista: | Revista médica de Chile |
| Base de datos: | PERIÓDICA |
| Número de sistema: | 000321363 |
| ISSN: | 0034-9887 |
| Autores: | Miranda, Marcelo1 |
| Instituciones: | 1Clínica Las Condes, Unidad de Neurología, Santiago de Chile. Chile |
| Año: | 2009 |
| Periodo: | Mar |
| Volumen: | 137 |
| Número: | 3 |
| Paginación: | 433-437 |
| País: | Chile |
| Idioma: | Español |
| Tipo de documento: | Artículo |
| Enfoque: | Descriptivo |
| Resumen en inglés | Marcel Proust is one of the greatest French writers of the XX century and of all times. In bis supreme work 'In Search of lost Time", Proust demonstrated a great knowledge of medicine and specifically neurology. He was surrounded by doctors in his family and himself came in touch with many brilliant neurologists as Babinski and Sollier due to his asthma, wrongly considered as a manifestation of his "neurasthenia". He used as a literary tool the concept of emotional memory which is the basis of his work. Nearly a century after Proust began the elaboration of bis masterpiece, this paper reviews important medical aspects of bis life and the influence that medicine had on bis work |
| Disciplinas: | Literatura y lingüística, Medicina |
| Palabras clave: | Historia de la literatura, Historia y filosofía de la medicina, Proust, Marcel, Asma, Memoria emocional |
| Keyword: | Literature and linguistics, Medicine, History of literature, History and philosophy of medicine, Proust, Marcel, Asthma, Emotional memory |
| Texto completo: | Texto completo (Ver HTML) |
