The Evolution of Proust's «Combray»: A Genetic Study

ISBN-13: 9781789977851 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 166 str.

Maureen A. Ramsden

Opis

This book explores the origins of Marcel Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu in an earlier, unfinished novel, Jean Santeuil. Using close readings of early unpublished versions of the work, the author offers a further elucidation of the meaning of this rich and complex novel and its evolution into a modernist work.

Spis treści

CONTENTS: An Overview of the Genesis of «Combray» - Jean Santeuil and the Notion of avant-texte: A Case for the Extension of the Term? - «Combray, de loin ...»: Changing Perspectives in «Combray» and its avant-texte - Another Glance through the Window of Proust's tante Léonie in À la recherche du temps perdu: A Genetic Study - Reading, Writing and Literature and their Evolution in «Combray» and the avant-texte - The «deux côtés» of Combray in their Genetic Context - Innovation in Narration, the Role of the Narrator and of the Reader, in Proust's Jean Santeuil and «Combray».

O autorze

Maureen A. Ramsden gained her PhD at Harvard. She then had some short-term posts, including St Andrews and King's College, London. Her present affiliation is the University of Hull. Her main areas of research are nineteenth- and twentieth-century French literature. Her research centres on the borders which separate factual and fictional documentary works. Her monograph in this area is entitled Crossing Borders: The Interrelation of Fact and Fiction in Historical Works, Travel Tales, Autobiography and Reportage (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2016). As the present monograph shows, she is also interested in the evolution of Proust's great novel, À la recherche du temps perdu. Her next project is on structure in À la recherche.