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  3. The Cambridge Introduction to Marcel Proust
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  • Adam Watt, Royal Holloway, University of London
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
June 2012
Print publication year:
2011
Online ISBN:
9780511973826
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511973826
Subjects:
Literature, Area Studies, English Literature: General Interest, European Literature, European Studies
Series:
Cambridge Introductions to Literature
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Book description

Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time, 1913–27) changed the course of modern narrative fiction. This Introduction provides an account of Proust's life, the socio-historical and cultural contexts of his work and an assessment of his early works. At its core is a volume-by-volume study of In Search of Lost Time, which attends to its remarkable superstructure, as well as to individual images and the intricacies of Proust's finely-stitched prose. The book reaches beyond stale commonplaces of madeleines and memory, alerting readers to Proust's verbal virtuosity, his preoccupations with the fleeting and the unforeseeable, with desire, jealousy and the nature of reality. Lively, informative chapters on Proust criticism and the work's afterlives in contemporary culture provide a multitude of paths to follow. The book charges readers with the energy and confidence to move beyond anecdote and hearsay and to read Proust's novel for themselves.

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'Watt creates a successful guidebook for new and hesitant readers of the Recherche … [He] shares with his reader what, in the end, is the true secret of Proust’s novel: for its great length and difficulty, the Recherche holds the promise of being an inexhaustible source of pleasure.'

Source: H-France Review

'Watt manages to make a difference with his fresh overview of Proust reception beyond literary scholarship and his focus on highlighting the richness of the Search beyond the well-known stereotypes of madeleine and memory. One of his most commendable achievements in this respect is the attention to the text’s linguistic quality.'

Source: Modern & Contemporary France

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Contents

Contents
  • Chapter 4 - In Search of Lost Time
    pp 44-103
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References
Further reading
In English
Biography
Albaret, C., Monsieur Proust, trans. by Bray, Barbara (New York Review Books, 2003).
Carter, W. C., Marcel Proust: A Life (New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 2000).
Caws, M. A., Marcel Proust (New York and London: Overlook Duckworth, 2003).
Dillon, B., ‘Marcel Proust and Common Sense’, in Tormented Hope: Nine Hypochondriac Lives (Dublin: Penguin Ireland, 2009), pp. 183–209.
Painter, G., Marcel Proust, 2 vols. (London: Chatto & Windus, 1959–65; frequently reprinted).
Tadié, J.- Y., Marcel Proust: A Biography, trans. by Cameron, Euan (London: Penguin – Viking, 2000).
White, E., Proust (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1999).
Context
Finch, A., ‘Despair and Optimism (1913–1944)’, in French Literature: A Cultural History (Cambridge: Polity, 2010), pp. 120–8.
Gamble, C., ‘From Belle Époque to First World War: the Social Panorama’, in Bales, R., ed., The Cambridge Companion to Proust (Cambridge University Press, 2001), pp. 7–24.
Gay, P., Modernism: The Lure of Heresy from Baudelaire to Beckett and Beyond (London: Vintage, 2007).
Gildea, R., Children of the Revolution: The French 1799–1914 (London: Allen Lane, 2008).
Kern, S., The Culture of Time and Space: 1880–1918 (Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2003 [1983]).
Sowerwine, C., France since 1870: Culture, Politics, Society (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001).
Zeldin, T., A History of French Passions: France 1848–1945, vol. V, Anxiety and Hypocrisy (Oxford University Press, 1977).
Getting started/reference works
Bales, R., ed., The Cambridge Companion to Proust (Cambridge University Press, 2001).
Bales, R., ed., Proust ‘A la recherche du temps perdu’ (London: Grant & Cutler, 1995).
Compagnon, A., ‘Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past’, in Nora, Pierre and Kritzman, Lawrence D., eds, Realms of Memory: The Construction of the French Past, trans. by Goldhammer, Arthur, vol. 2 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997), pp. 211–45.
Ellison, D., A Reader's Guide to Proust's ‘In Search of Lost Time’ (Cambridge University Press, 2010).
Kilmartin, T., A Guide to Proust (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1983); also reproduced in the Vintage edition of Time Regained.
Early studies and landmarks
Beckett, S., Proust and Three Dialogues with Georges Duthuit (London: John Calder, 1987 [1931]).
Benjamin, W., ‘The Image of Proust’, in Illuminations, trans. by Zohn, Harry, ed. by Arendt, Hannah (London: Pimlico, 1999 [1970]), pp. 197–210.
Bowie, M., Proust among the Stars (London: HarperCollins, 1998).
Compagnon, A., Proust between Two Centuries, trans. by Goodkin, Richard E. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1992).
Deleuze, G., Proust and Signs, trans. by Howard, Richard (London: Athlone, 2000).
Doubrovsky, S., Writing and Fantasy in Proust: la place de la madeleine, trans. by Paul, and Bové, Carol (Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1986).
Kristeva, J., Time and Sense: Proust and the Experience of Literature, trans. by Guberman, Ross (New York: Columbia University Press, 1996).
Wilson, E., ‘Marcel Proust’, in Axel's Castle: A Study in the Imaginative Literature of 1870–1930 (London: Collins Fontana, 1979 [1931]), pp. 111–54.
General approaches
Bersani, L., Marcel Proust: The Fictions of Life and of Art (New York: Oxford University Press, 1965).
Carter, W. C., The Proustian Quest (New York University Press, 1992).
Finn, M. R., Proust, the Body and Literary Form (Cambridge University Press, 1999).
Gray, M., Postmodern Proust (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992).
Wassenaar, I. P., Proustian Passions: The Uses of Self-justification for ‘A la recherche du temps perdu’ (Oxford University Press, 2000).
Watt, A. A., Reading in Proust's ‘A la recherche’: ‘le délire de la lecture’ (Oxford University Press, 2009).
Philosophy and fiction
Bowie, M., Freud, Proust, Lacan: Theory as Fiction (Cambridge University Press, 1987).
Descombes, V., Proust: Philosophy of the Novel, trans. by Macksey, Catherine Chance (Stanford University Press, 1992).
Landy, J., Philosophy as Fiction: Self, Deception and Knowledge in Proust (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004).
Large, D., Nietzsche and Proust: A Comparative Study (Oxford University Press, 2001).
Style and narrative technique
Bowie, M., ‘Proust and the Art of Brevity’, in Bales, R., ed., The Cambridge Companion to Proust (Cambridge University Press, 2001), pp. 216–29.
Bowie, M., ‘Reading Proust between the Lines’, in Benhaïm, A., ed., The Strange M. Proust (Oxford: Legenda, 2009), pp. 125–34.
Man, P., ‘Reading (Proust)’, in Allegories of Reading: Figural Language in Rousseau, Nietzsche, Rilke and Proust (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1979), pp. 57–78.
Genette, G., Narrative Discourse: An Essay in Method, trans. by Lewin, Jane E. (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1980).
Graham, V., The Imagery of Proust (Oxford: Blackwell, 1966).
Rogers, B. G., The Narrative Techniques of ‘A la recherche du temps perdu’ (Paris: Honoré Champion, 2004), revised and augmented edition of Proust's Narrative Techniques (Geneva: Droz, 1965).
Rogers, B. G., ‘Proust's Narrator’, in Bales, R., ed., The Cambridge Companion to Proust (Cambridge University Press, 2001), pp. 85–99.
Slater, M., Humour in the Works of Proust (Oxford University Press, 1979).
Tadié, J.-Y., Proust et le roman (Paris: Gallimard, 1971; reprinted 1986).
Proust and the arts
Beugnet, M. and Schmid, M., Proust at the Movies (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004).
Bales, R., Proust and the Middle Ages (Geneva: Droz, 1975).
Bales, R., ‘Proust and the Fine Arts’, in Bales, R., ed., The Cambridge Companion to Proust (Cambridge University Press, 2001), pp. 183–99.
Bowie, M., ‘Art’, in Proust among the Stars (London: HarperCollins, 1998), pp. 68–125.
Brooks, P., ‘Modernism and Realism: Joyce, Proust, Woolf’, in Realist Vision (New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 2005), pp. 198–211.
Cocking, J. M., ‘Proust and Music’ and ‘Proust and Painting’, in Proust: Collected Essays on the Writer and His Art (Cambridge University Press, 1982), pp. 109–29 and 130–63.
Collier, P., Proust and Venice (Cambridge University Press, 1987).
Gamble, C., Proust as Interpreter of Ruskin: The Seven Lamps of Translation (Birmingham, AL: Summa Publications, 2002).
Ellison, D., ‘Proust and Posterity’, in Bales, R., ed., The Cambridge Companion to Proust (Cambridge University Press, 2001), pp. 200–15.
Karpeles, E., Painting in Proust: A Visual Companion to Proust's ‘A la recherche du temps perdu’ (London: Thames & Hudson, 2008).
Lehrer, J., Proust Was a Neuroscientist (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2007).
Nattiez, J.- J., Proust as Musician, trans. by Puffett, Derrick (Cambridge University Press, 1989).
Prendergast, C., ‘Literature, Painting, Metaphor: Matisse/Proust’, in The Triangle of Representation (New York: Columbia University Press, 2000) pp. 147–59.
Topping, M., ‘Photographic Vision(s) in Marcel Proust's and Raoul Ruiz's Le Temps retrouvé’, in Watt, A., ed., Le Temps retrouvé Eighty Years After/80 ans après: Critical Essays/Essais critiques (Bern: Peter Lang, 2009), pp. 309–21.
Tribout-Joseph, S., Proust and Joyce in Dialogue (Oxford: Legenda, 2009).
Self, sex and society
Bowie, M., ‘Self’ and ‘Sex’, in Proust among the Stars (London: HarperCollins, 1998), pp. 1–29 and 209–66.
Cano, C. M., ‘Proust and the Wartime Press’, in Watt, A., ed., Le Temps retrouvé Eighty Years After/80 ans après: Critical Essays/Essais critiques (Bern: Peter Lang, 2009), pp. 133–41.
Carter, W. C., Proust in Love (New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 2006).
Eells, E., Proust's Cup of Tea: Homoeroticism and Victorian Culture (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002).
Finch, A., ‘Love, Sexuality and Friendship’, in Bales, R., ed., The Cambridge Companion to Proust (Cambridge University Press, 2001), pp. 168–82.
Girard, R., Deceit, Desire, and the Novel: Self and Other in Literary Structure, trans. by Freccero, Y. (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976).
Hughes, E. J., Marcel Proust: A Study in the Quality of Awareness (Cambridge University Press, 1983).
Hughes, E. J., ‘Hierarchies’, in Watt, A., ed., Le Temps retrouvé Eighty Years After/80 ans après: Critical Essays/Essais critiques (Bern: Peter Lang, 2009), pp. 117–31.
Ladenson, E., Proust's Lesbianism (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, 1999).
Lejeune, P., ‘Écriture et sexualité’, Europe, 49 (1971), 113–43.
Lucey, M., Never Say ‘I’: Sexuality and the First Person in Colette, Gide and Proust (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006).
Sprinker, M., History and Ideology: ‘A la recherche du temps perdu’ and the Third French Republic (Cambridge University Press, 1994).
Rivers, J. E., Proust and the Art of Love: The Aesthetics of Sexuality in the Life, Times and Art of Marcel Proust (New York: Columbia University Press, 1981).
Terdiman, R., The Dialectics of Isolation: Self and Society in the French Novel from the Realists to Proust (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1976).
Wilson, E., Sexuality and the Reading Encounter: Identity and Desire in Proust, Duras, Tournier and Cixous (Oxford University Press, 1996).
Critical reception and genetic criticism
Bowie, M., ‘Barthes on Proust’, The Yale Journal of Criticism, 14 (2001), 513–18.
Cano, C. M., Proust's Deadline (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2006).
Hodson, L., ed., Marcel Proust: The Critical Heritage (London: Routledge, 1989).
Pugh, A., The Birth of ‘A la recherche du temps perdu’ (Lexington, KY: French Forum Publishers, 1987).
Pugh, A., The Growth of ‘A la recherche du temps perdu’: A Chronological Examination of Proust's Manuscripts from 1909 to 1914, 2 vols. (University of Toronto Press, 2004).
Schmid, M., ‘The Birth and Development of A la recherche du temps perdu’, in Bales, R., ed., The Cambridge Companion to Proust (Cambridge University Press, 2001), pp. 58–73.
Winton (Finch), A., Proust's Additions: The Making of ‘A la recherche du temps perdu’, 2 vols. (Cambridge University Press, 1977).
Edited volumes
Benhaïm, A., ed., The Strange M. Proust (Oxford: Legenda, 2009).
Bryden, M. and Topping, M., eds, Beckett's Proust/Deleuze's Proust (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).
Kotin, A. and Kolb, K., eds, Proust in Perspective: Visions and Revisions (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2002).
Watt, A. A., ed., Le Temps retrouvé Eighty Years After/80 ans après: Critical Essays/Essais critiques (Bern: Peter Lang, 2009).
In French
Biography
Albaret, C., Monsieur Proust (Robert Laffont, 1973).
Tadié, J.-Y., Marcel Proust: Biographie (Gallimard, 1996).
Getting started/reference works
Bouillaguet, A. and Rogers, B. G., eds, Dictionnaire Marcel Proust (Honoré Champion, 2004).
Compagnon, A., ‘La Recherche du temps perdu de Marcel Proust’, in Nora, Pierre, ed., Les Lieux de mémoire [1984–92], ‘Quarto’ edition, 3 vols., III ‘Les Frances’ (Gallimard, 1997), pp. 3835–69.
Laget, T., L'ABCdaire de Proust (Flammarion, 1998).
Early studies and landmarks
Barthes, R., ‘Proust et les noms’, in Le Degré zéro de l'écriture suivi de Nouveaux essais critiques (Seuil, 1972 [1967]), pp. 121–34.
Compagnon, A., Proust entre deux siècles (Seuil, 1989).
Deleuze, G., Proust et les signes (Presses Universitaires de France, 1964; 4th edn, rev. 1970).
Doubrovsky, S., La place de la madeleine: écriture et fantasme chez Proust (Mercure de France, 1974).
Kristeva, J., Le Temps sensible: Proust et l'expérience littéraire (Gallimard ‘Folio Essais’, 2000 [1994]).
Richard, J.-P., Proust et le monde sensible (Seuil, 1974).
General approaches
Tadié, J.-Y., Proust: le dossier (Belfond, 1983; various reprints).
Tadié, J.-Y., Proust: la cathédrale du temps (Gallimard ‘Découverte’, 1999).
Philosophy and fiction
Barthes, R., Le Plaisir du texte (Seuil, 1973).
Barthes, R., ‘Roland Barthes contre les idées reçues’ [1974], in Œuvres complètes, 3 vols., ed. Éric Marty (Seuil, 1994), III, pp. 70–4.
Carbone, M. and Sparvoli, E., eds, Proust et la philosophie aujourd'hui (Pisa: Edizioni ETS, 2008).
Descombes, V., Proust: philosophie du roman (Minuit, 1987).
Simon, A., Proust ou le réel retrouvé (Presses Universitaires de France, 2000; new edition, Honoré Champion, 2010).
Style and narrative technique
Duval, S., L'ironie proustienne: La vision stéréoscopique (Honoré Champion, 2004).
Genette, G., ‘Proust palimpseste’, in Figures I (Seuil, 1966), pp. 39–67.
Genette, G., ‘Proust et le langage indirect’, in Figures II (Seuil, 1969), pp. 223–94.
Genette, G. ‘Métonymie chez Proust’, in Figures III (Seuil, 1972), pp. 41–63.
Genette, G. ‘Discours du récit’, in Figures III (Seuil, 1972), pp. 65–282.
Milly, J., Proust et le style (Lettres modernes, 1970).
Milly, J., La Phrase de Proust: des phrases de Bergotte aux phrases de Vinteuil (Larousse, 1975; reprinted 1983).
Spitzer, L., ‘Le style de Marcel Proust’, in Études de style (NRF, 1970 [German edition 1961]).
Tadié, J.-Y., Proust et le roman (Gallimard, 1971; reprinted 1986).
Proust and the arts
Azérad, H., L'univers constellé de Proust, Joyce et Faulkner: le concept d'épiphanie dans l'esthétique du modernisme (Bern: Peter Lang, 2002).
Bedriomo, E., Proust, Wagner et la coïncidence des arts (Editions Place, 1984).
Bouillaguet, A., Marcel Proust: le jeu intertextuel (Editions du Titre, 1990).
Butor, M., Les œuvres d'art imaginaires chez Proust (London: Athlone Press, 1964).
Jullien, D., Proust et ses modèles: les ‘Mille et Une Nuits’ et les ‘Mémoires’ de Saint-Simon (José Corti, 1989).
Jullien, D., Marcel Proust Aujourd'hui, 6 ‘Proust dans la littérature contemporaine’ (2008).
Nattiez, J.-J., Proust musicien (Christian Bourgois, 1984).
Tadié, J.-Y., ed., Marcel Proust: l'écriture et les arts (Gallimard/Bibliothèque Nationale de France/Réunion des musées nationaux, 1999).
Self, sex and society
Dubois, J., Pour Albertine: Proust et le sens du social (Seuil, 1997).
Girard, R., Mensonge romantique et vérité romanesque (Grasset, 1961).
Hughes, E. J., ‘La représentation du monde social dans Combray’, in Marcel Proust Aujourd'hui, 3 (2005), 63–80.
Lejeune, P., ‘Écriture et sexualité’, Europe, 49 (1971), 113–43.
Sakamoto, H., ‘La guerre, l'art et le patriotisme’, in Watt, A., ed., Le Temps retrouvé Eighty Years After/80 ans après: Critical Essays/Essais critiques (Bern: Peter Lang, 2009), pp. 142–53.
Critical reception and genetic criticism
Mauriac Dyer, N., Proust inachevé: Le dossier ‘Albertine disparue’ (Honoré Champion, 2005).
Milly, J. and Warning, R., Marcel Proust: Écrire sans fin (CNRS, 1996).
Pennanech, F., ‘Le Temps retrouvé et la Nouvelle Critique: le problème de l'achèvement’, in Watt, A., ed., Le Temps retrouvé Eighty Years After/80 ans après: Critical Essays/Essais critiques (Bern: Peter Lang, 2009), pp. 239–53.
Simon, A., ‘Marcel Proust par Roland Barthes’, in Carbone, M. and Sparvoli, E., eds, Proust et la philosophie aujourd'hui (Pisa: Edizioni ETS, 2008), pp. 207–21.
Edited volumes
Cléder, J. and Montier, J.-P., eds, Proust et les images, peinture, photographie, cinéma, vidéo (Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2003).
Compagnon, A., ed., Proust, la mémoire et la littérature (Odile Jacob, 2009).
Watt, A. ed., Le Temps retrouvé Eighty Years After/80 ans après: Critical Essays/Essais critiques (Bern: Peter Lang, 2009).

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