ONE DAY - 16 June, 1989 - Or Those Exceptional Moments
ONE DAY - 16 June, 1989 - Or Those Exceptional Moments

Summary/Abstract: According to Marcel Proust, – perhaps this is the most exciting message of his work – there are extraordinary, magical moments of wonder in every lifetime, which interrupt the never-ending string of grey and painful seconds, and thereby give meaning to life. He was of course referring to private life – nothing else could come into consideration, since public life had no relevance for Proust. Or, as he held with his master Flaubert, history was unable to alter the course of one’s private life, either for better or for worse. We, of course, live one and a half thousand kilometres east of where they lived, and as a result, we have experienced or we have lived in the illusion to experience that history has its own exciting, magical, or we can state, uplifting moments.

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