For Proust himself and the demonstration given leaves no doubt on this subject, if one still had any—the demands of structure were con- stant and conscious, manifesting themselves through marvels of (nei- ther true nor false) symmetry, recurrence, circularity, light thrown backward, superimposition (without adequation) of the first and the last, etc. Teleology here is not a product of the critic’s projection, but is the author’s own theme. The implication of the end in the beginning, the strange relationships between the subject who writes the book and the subject of this book, between the consciousness of the narrator and that of the hero—all this recalls the style of becoming and the dialectic of the “we” in the Phenomenology of the Mind. 50