Proust, the Body and Literary Form
Michael R. Finn
Michael Finn examines the vogue for nervous afflictions in France in the late nineteenth century, and compares Proust's anxieties about writing In Search of Lost Time to the concerns of earlier writers suffering from nervous conditions, including Flaubert, Baudelaire, Nerval and the Goncourt brothers. Once Proust cast off his fear of being a nervous weakling, he was able to make fun of the supposed purity of the novel form. The author shows how hysteria becomes a key to Proustian narrative, and discusses how together with Proust's use of pastiche, narrative pranks and games, it unlocks a writing technique that undermines conventional fiction.
カテゴリー:
年:
1999
出版社:
Cambridge University Press
言語:
english
ページ:
224
ISBN 10:
0511005075
ISBN 13:
9780521641890
シリーズ:
Cambridge Studies
ファイル:
PDF, 1.17 MB
IPFS:
,
english, 1999