Anamnesia Private and Public Memory in Modern French Culture

The Editors: Peter Collier is Emeritus Fellow in French at Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge. His books include Proust and Venice (1989). He has translated Zola’s Germinal (1994) and Proust’s The Fugitive (2002). He is the series editor of Modern French Identities and European Connections for Peter Lang. Anna Magdalena Elsner is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Cambridge and currently a visiting researcher at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris. She is writing on the relation between mourning and creativity in Proust’s A la recherche du temps perdu. Apart from everything Proustian, she is also interested in French documentary cinema. Olga Smith is preparing her Ph.D. thesis, entitled ‘The Erosion of the Real: Photography in France 1970s-2000s’ at the Department of History of Art at the University of Cambridge. She is currently a visiting scholar at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris.