| Summary: | <p>First presented as a conference on the 16th of December 2008 at the University of Bourgogne,Dijon, this texts aims at reflecting on <em>Vita Nota</em>, the novel Roland Barthes was writing just before his fatal accident in February, 1980. Thus, in the first part of the article, a description of the plans of <em>Vita Nova </em>and of other texts that were part of the project will be presented. After that, an assessement on the project’s three possible ways for writing the novel will be undertaken : 1) Writing the novel is writing <em>Remembrance of Things Past </em>; 2) Writing the novel is doing the exact opposite of what Proust did ; 3) Writing the novel is trying to escape <em>Remembrance of Things Past </em>and , at the same time, rewriting it.</p>
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