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Chapter 3 - Marcel Proust

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 September 2009

Jessica Berman
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University of Maryland, Baltimore
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PROUST, BERNARD LAZARE, AND THE POLITICS OF PARIAHDOM

Les Roumains, les Egyptiens et les Turcs peuvent détester les Juifs. Mais dans un salon français les différences entre ces peuples ne sont pas si perceptibles, et un Israélite faisant son entrée comme il sortait du fond du désert … contente parfaitement un goût d'orientalisme. Seulement il faut pour cela que le Juif n'appartienne pas au “monde”.

(The Rumanians, the Egyptians, the Turks may hate the Jews. But in a French drawing-room the differences between those peoples are not so apparent, and a Jew making his entry as though he were emerging from the desert … completely satisfies a certain taste for the oriental. Only it is essential that the Jews in question should not be actually “in” society.)

Marcel Proust, A la recherche du temps perdu, 11: 194

N'ai-je donc pas le droit d'être Juif? Est-ce là le crime irrémissible? Et d'être tel, cela vaut-il l'éternelle haine de tous? … Je suis Juif et j'ignore tout des Juifs. Je suis désormais un paria … il faut que je sache qui je suis et pourquoi je suis haï, et ce que je puis être.

(Don't I have the right to be Jewish? Is that the irremissable crime? And if I am, do I deserve the eternal hatred of all? … I am a Jew and I know nothing of Jews. I am henceforth a pariah … I must know who I am and why I am hated and who I can be.)

Bernard Lazare, Le Fumier de Job, 25

Proust may have been closer in spirit to Bernard Lazare.

Julia Kristeva, Time and Sense, 145
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  • Marcel Proust
  • Jessica Berman, University of Maryland, Baltimore
  • Book: Modernist Fiction, Cosmopolitanism and the Politics of Community
  • Online publication: 22 September 2009
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511485008.003
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  • Marcel Proust
  • Jessica Berman, University of Maryland, Baltimore
  • Book: Modernist Fiction, Cosmopolitanism and the Politics of Community
  • Online publication: 22 September 2009
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511485008.003
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  • Marcel Proust
  • Jessica Berman, University of Maryland, Baltimore
  • Book: Modernist Fiction, Cosmopolitanism and the Politics of Community
  • Online publication: 22 September 2009
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511485008.003
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