DOCSLIB.ORG

Marcel Proust in Context Edited by Adam Watt Frontmatter More Information

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Marcel Proust in Context Edited by Adam Watt Frontmatter More Information Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-02189-1 - Marcel Proust in Context Edited by Adam Watt Frontmatter More information MARCEL PROUST IN CONTEXT This volume sets Marcel Proust’s masterwork, À la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time, 1913–27), in its cultural and socio-historical contexts. Essays by the leading scholars in the field attend to Proust’s biography, his huge correspondence, and the genesis and protracted evolution of his masterpiece. Light is cast on Proust’s relation to thinkers and artists of his time, and to those of the great French and European traditions of which he is now so centrally a part. There is vivid exploration of Proust’s reading; his attitudes towards contemporary social and political issues; his relation to journalism, religion, sexuality, science and travel, and how these figure in the Recherche. The volume closes with a comprehensive survey of Proust’s critical reception, from reviews during his lifetime to the present day, including assessments of Proust in trans- lation and the broader assimilation of his work into twentieth- and twenty-first-century culture. adam watt is Associate Professor in French at the University of Exeter and is a member of the Équipe Proust at the ITEM/ENS in Paris. He is author of Reading in Proust’s ‘À la recherche’: ‘le délire de la lecture’ (2009), The Cambridge Introduction to Marcel Proust (Cambridge, 2011) and an illustrated biography of the author, Marcel Proust (2013). © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-02189-1 - Marcel Proust in Context Edited by Adam Watt Frontmatter More information © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-02189-1 - Marcel Proust in Context Edited by Adam Watt Frontmatter More information MARCEL PROUST IN CONTEXT edited by ADAM WATT © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-02189-1 - Marcel Proust in Context Edited by Adam Watt Frontmatter More information University Printing House, Cambridge cb2 8bs, United Kingdom Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York Cambridge University Press is part of the University of Cambridge. It furthers the University’s mission by disseminating knowledge in the pursuit of education, learning and research at the highest international levels of excellence. www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9781107021891 © Cambridge University Press 2013 This publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published 2013 Printed in the United Kingdom by Clays, St Ives plc A catalogue record for this publication is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Marcel Proust in context / [edited by] Adam Watt. pages cm. – (Literature in context) isbn 978-1-107-02189-1 (Hardback) 1. Proust, Marcel, 1871–1922 – Criticism and interpretation. 2. Proust, Marcel, 1871–1922. À la recherche du temps perdu. 3. Proust, Marcel, 1871–1922 –Knowledge. 4. Proust, Marcel, 1871–1922 – Appreciation. I. Watt, Adam A. (Adam Andrew), 1979– pq2631.r63z7225 2013 8430.912–dc23 2013021437 isbn 978-1-107-02189-1 Hardback Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this publication, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-02189-1 - Marcel Proust in Context Edited by Adam Watt Frontmatter More information Contents List of illustrations page viii Notes on contributors ix Preface xvii Note on the text xxi Chronology xxii part i: life and works 1 Life 3 William C. Carter 2 Correspondence 10 Luc Fraisse, translated by Lesley Lawn 3 Finding a form: Les Plaisirs et les jours to Contre Sainte-Beuve 19 Nathalie Aubert 4 Finding a voice: from Ruskin to the pastiches 27 Cynthia Gamble 5 Composition and publication of À la recherche du temps perdu 34 Nathalie Mauriac Dyer part ii: historical and cultural contexts i. the arts 6 Proust’s reading 43 Caroline Szylowicz 7 Decadence and the fin de siècle 51 Marion Schmid v © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-02189-1 - Marcel Proust in Context Edited by Adam Watt Frontmatter More information vi Contents 8 Paris and the avant-garde 59 Hugues Azérad 9 The novelistic tradition 67 Hugues Azérad and Marion Schmid 10 Philosophy 75 Thomas Baldwin 11 Painting 83 Gabrielle Townsend 12 Music 90 Julian Johnson 13 Theatre and dance 97 Áine Larkin ii. self and society 14 Freud and psychoanalysis 107 Céline Surprenant 15 Sexuality 115 Elisabeth Ladenson 16 Health and medicine 123 Michael R. Finn 17 Technology and science 130 Sarah Tribout-Joseph 18 Religion 137 Margaret Topping 19 Travel 145 Margaret Topping 20 Journalism 153 Christine M. Cano 21 Politics and class 160 Edward J. Hughes 22 The Dreyfus Affair 167 Edward J. Hughes © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-02189-1 - Marcel Proust in Context Edited by Adam Watt Frontmatter More information Contents vii 23 The First World War 174 Brigitte Mahuzier part iii: critical reception 24 Critical reception during Proust’s lifetime 183 Anna Magdalena Elsner 25 Early critical responses, 1922 to 1950s 191 Vincent Ferré 26 Mid-twentieth-century views, 1960sto1980s 199 Thomas Baldwin 27 Late-twentieth- and twenty-first-century responses 206 Adam Watt 28 Modernism 214 David Ellison 29 Adaptations/afterlives 221 Margaret E. Gray 30 Translations 230 Michael Wood Further reading 241 Index 256 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-02189-1 - Marcel Proust in Context Edited by Adam Watt Frontmatter More information Illustrations Figure 1 Marcel Proust, portrait in oils by Jacques-Émile Blanche, 1892 © Rue des Archives/RDA xvi Figure 2 Proust photographed on his death-bed by Man Ray, 1922 © Rue des Archives/RDA xx Figure 3 Proust at the tennis courts on boulevard Bineau, 1892 © Rue des Archives/Tallandier 222 viii © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-02189-1 - Marcel Proust in Context Edited by Adam Watt Frontmatter More information Notes on contributors nathalie aubert is Professor of French Literature at Oxford Brookes University. She has written a range of chapters and articles on European modernism and avant-garde movements, with a special emphasis on the ‘visual’; she has published two books (2001 and 2003) and a number of articles and chapters on Proust. Her latest book is dedicated to Belgian poet and painter Christian Dotremont: Christian Dotremont: la conquête du monde par l’image (2012). hugues aze´ rad is Fellow in French at Magdalene College, Cambridge. He is the author of L’Univers constellé de Proust, Faulkner et Joyce (2002). He is co-editor (with Peter Collier) of Twentieth-Century French Poetry: A Critical Anthology (Cambridge University Press, 2010); he also co-edited (with Emma Wagstaff, Michael G. Kelly and Nina Parish) a special issue of French Forum, ‘Poetic Practice and the Practice of Poetics in French since 1945’ (2012), and Chantiers du poème (2012). He has written articles on Reverdy, Proust, Glissant, Faulkner, Nerval and Joyce and is an editor for The Literary Encyclopedia. thomas baldwin is Senior Lecturer in French and Co-Director of the Centre for Modern European Literature at the University of Kent. His publications include The Material Object in the Work of Marcel Proust (2005), The Flesh in the Text (co-edited with James Fowler and Shane Weller, 2007), The Picture as Spectre in Diderot, Proust, and Deleuze (2011) and Text and Image in Modern European Culture (co-edited with Natasha Grigorian and Margaret Rigaud-Drayton, 2012). christine m. cano is Associate Professor of French at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, where she teaches French lan- guage, literature and cinema. She is the author of Proust’s Deadline ix © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-02189-1 - Marcel Proust in Context Edited by Adam Watt Frontmatter More information x Notes on contributors (2006) and has published articles on various topics in twentieth-century book and media history. william c. carter is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. His biography Marcel Proust: A Life was named a ‘Notable Book of 2000’ by the New York Times, ‘Best Book of 2000’ by the Los Angeles Times,and‘Best Biography of 2000’ by the Sunday Times of London. Harold Bloom has written that Carter is ‘Proust’sdefinitive biographer’ and that his most recent book, Proust in Love is ‘a marvellous study of the comic splendour of the great novelist’s vision of human eros and its discontents’.Heco-producedthe award-winning documentary Marcel Proust: A Writer’s Life. His website is www.proust-ink.com. david ellison is Distinguished Professor in the Humanities at the University of Miami, Florida. He is the author of three books on Proust – The Reading of Proust (1984), A Reader’s Guide to Proust’s ‘In Search of Lost Time’ (Cambridge University Press, 2010), and Proust et la tradition littéraire européenne (2012) – as well as studies on Albert Camus, the experimental French novel, literature and philoso- phy, literature and psychoanalysis, and Franco-German literary relations. anna magdalena elsner is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at King’s College London and a member of the Équipe Proust at the ITEM/ENS in Paris.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • The Fiction of Marcel Proust's Autobiography
    The Fiction of Marcel Proust’s Autobiography Gian Balsamo English and Comparative Literature, American University in Cairo Abstract This essay discusses the literary genre of Proust’s In Search of Lost Time as analogous with the genre peculiar to Dante’s Commedia and Augustine’s Confessions. Both Dante and Augustine narrate their autobiography in terms of a writerly voca- tion pursued by means of a love quest; both authors’ success in the affirmation of their respective identity depends on the success of the love quest. Dante’s case is especially relevant to this essay insofar as his poem instantiates his authorial identity as coincident with that of his fictional character. Augustine’s confessions, however driven by a love quest, belong to the more conventionally autobiographic genre of the personal memoir. The fiction of theCommedia is that the biography of its fictional protagonist is the author’s autobiography. The same principle, which challenges the narratological distinction among real author, implied author, and narrator, may be applied to Proust’s novel. Marcel, the protagonist, crowns his literary vocation only at the end of a protracted love quest. His success in the love quest coincides with the end of the novel, and it is at this point that the distinction between fictional character and historical author loses its force. After Erich Auerbach on the Commedia, one can argue that Marcel and Marcel Proust come to coincide at the point of intersection of allegory and history; the fictional character is the allegory of the author’s histori- cal authenticity. Toward the end, Marcel-the-character, finally equipped with the means and determination to write the novel we have just read, metamorphoses into Proust-the-author: he is Proust’s deliberate choice for his own autobiography.
    [Show full text]
  • Marcel Proust
    C ASSETTE I NFORMATION Cassette 1, Side 1. (40:48) Cassette 1, Side 2 . (38:59) Reynaldo Hahn sings Offrande, 1909 Military service (cont) The Life and Three fictional creative artists: a composer, The first short story a painter and an author Influential drawing rooms Proust’s episodes of ‘involuntary memory’ Comte Robert de Montesquiou-Fezensac were a means of digging into sensation in Reynaldo Hahn Work of order to reach the heart of it 3 CASSETTES Lucien Daudet The Franco-Prussian War The Dreyfus Case NON-FICTION The birth of Marcel Proust, January 10, 1871 Total Time on Cassette 1: 1:19:47 BIOGRAPHY The goodnight kiss UNABRIDGED Marcel Proust Military service AUDIO-ORIGINAL Cassette 2, Side 1. (41:17) Cassette 2, Side 2. (38:15) W RITTEN & READ BY N EVILLE J ASON The Dreyfus Case (cont) Time Lost, Time Regained; Pleasures and Days involuntary memory (cont) Jean Santeuil, the early, Alfred Agostinelli autobiographical novel Sergei Diaghilev, Jean Cocteau, Anna de Noailles Pablo Picasso and friends Marcel Proust and John Ruskin Looking for a publisher More work: Ruskin’s The Bible of Amiens The manuscript is delivered to Grasset The move to 102 Boulevard Haussmann Proust and Agostinelli Time Lost, Time Regained; involuntary memory Total Time on Cassette 2: 1:19:32 Cassette 3, Side 1. (41:28) Cassette 3, Side 2 . ((38:17) Proust and Agostinelli (cont) Within a Budding Grove published in 1919, The publication of Swann’s Way winning the Prix Goncourt, and then The Guermantes Way The First World War begins, August 3, 1914 The meeting with
    [Show full text]
  • The Fugitive Read by Neville Jason
    COMPLETE CLASSICS UNABRIDGED Marcel Proust The Fugitive Read by Neville Jason RemembRance of Things PasT • 6 CD 1 1 The Fugitive: Chapter One 14:50 2 No doubt I had not ventured to interpret… 14:44 3 When I vowed to myself that Albertine would… 12:54 4 To carnal pleasure I did not even give a thought… 10:27 5 Knowing that Saint-Loup was in Paris I had sent for him… 13:28 6 By an inverse gymnastic, I who had made a mental effort… 11:33 Total time on CD 1: 78:00 CD 2 1 But as soon as they had gone, the head… 11:16 2 I thought of Albertine all the time and never was… 13:11 3 Since Manon returned to Des Grieux… 12:21 4 No doubt, just as I had said in the past to Albertine… 13:47 5 Time passes, and gradually everything that we have said… 14:35 6 I was during these days so incapable of forming any picture… 12:58 Total time on CD 2: 78:11 2 CD 3 1 I remained speechless with astonishment… 13:44 2 The suppression of suffering? 14:03 3 I asked Françoise the time. 11:44 4 No doubt these nights that are so short… 14:57 5 How could she have seemed dead to me when now… 11:35 6 Sometimes I came in collision in the dark lanes… 12:24 Total time on CD 3: 78:30 CD 4 1 And I then felt, with an intense pity for her… 9:49 2 How she used to hasten to see me at Balbec… 14:34 3 I had thought that my social relations, my wealth… 15:08 4 At any rate I was glad that, before she died… 14:54 5 Besides, from a single fact, if it is certain… 11:51 6 No doubt it was because in that silent and deliberate arrival… 11:46 Total time on CD 4: 78:07 3 CD 5 1 I tried not to think of anything, to take up a newspaper.
    [Show full text]
  • Marcel Proust's Performative Call to Philosophy of Communication David Deiuliis
    Duquesne University Duquesne Scholarship Collection Electronic Theses and Dissertations Fall 1-1-2015 Communicating through Cork: Marcel Proust's Performative Call to Philosophy of Communication David DeIuliis Follow this and additional works at: https://dsc.duq.edu/etd Recommended Citation DeIuliis, D. (2015). Communicating through Cork: Marcel Proust's Performative Call to Philosophy of Communication (Doctoral dissertation, Duquesne University). Retrieved from https://dsc.duq.edu/etd/76 This Worldwide Access is brought to you for free and open access by Duquesne Scholarship Collection. It has been accepted for inclusion in Electronic Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of Duquesne Scholarship Collection. For more information, please contact [email protected]. COMMUNICATING THROUGH CORK: MARCEL PROUST’S PERFORMATIVE CALL TO PHILOSOPHY OF COMMUNICATION A Dissertation Submitted to the McAnulty College and Graduate School of Liberal Arts Duquesne University In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosopy By David DeIuliis December 2015 Copyright by David DeIuliis 2015 COMMUNICATING THROUGH CORK: MARCEL PROUST’S PERFORMATIVE CALL TO PHILOSOPHY OF COMMUNICATION By David DeIuliis Approved October 23, 2015 ________________________________ ________________________________ Ronald C. Arnett, Ph.D. Janie Harden Fritz, Ph.D. Professor of Communication & Rhetorical Professor of Communication & Rhetorical Studies Studies (Committee Chair) (Committee Member) ________________________________ Richard
    [Show full text]
  • Proustand America
    AND PROUST AND AMERICA PROUST The influenCE OF AmeriCan art, Culture and literature ON A la RECHERCHE DU tempS peRDU PROUST AMERICA MICHAEL MURPHY “It’s odd,” Proust wrote in 1910, “how in every genre, however different... there’s no literature that has a power over me comparable to English and American.” While recent studies of A la recherche du temps perdu have focused on Proust’s Anglomanie, this engaging and critical volume offers in the spirit of Proust’s admission the first comparative reading of his novel in the context of American art, literature, and culture. In doing so it takes issue with an aspect of Proustian criticism that looks AND to neutralize the presence of non-French influences in his work. Murphy shows how Proust’s novel is uniquely open to the many and varied American influences in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century French society, and how the New World contributed AMERIC to the essential modernity of Proust’s depiction of a world undergoing rapid technological, political, economic, and sexual change. In addition to significant artistic figures such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edgar Allan Poe, and James McNeill Whistler, Proust and America investigates the presence in the book of the American neurologist George Beard and his concept of “American Nervousness.” What Proust captures is a culture in transition. In doing so he gives us a road map to what was in the process of becoming, with all its continuing implications, provocations, and reverberations, the American Way. A “An ambitious and original book… a work of comparative literature in the proper sense” Patrick McGuinness, University of Oxford MICHAEL MURPHY Michael Murphy is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Nottingham Trent University.
    [Show full text]