Proust Philosophie Du Roman

Author : Vincent Descombes
Publisher : Minuit
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9782707339607

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Proust. Philosophie du roman by Vincent Descombes Pdf

Proust prête au narrateur cette réflexion sur le peintre Elstir : ses tableaux sont plus hardis que leur auteur, le tableau d’Elstir est plus hardi qu’Elstir théoricien. Toute l’intention du présent essai est d’appliquer la même distinction à Proust : le roman proustien est plus hardi que Proust théoricien. Par là, je veux dire : le roman est philosophiquement plus hardi, il va plus loin dans la tâche que Proust assigne au travail de l’écrivain (éclaircir la vie, éclaircir ce qui a été vécu dans l’obscurité et la confusion). Proust théoricien mobilise les thèses de la philosophie de son temps au service du dogme qu’il défend en littérature (que l’œuvre ne saurait être expliqué par l’homme). Il reprend imperturbablement les conclusions les plus aporétiques de la philosophie moderne comme autant de vérités lumineuses : la croyance au langage privé, le solipsisme, le mythe de l’intériorité, la subjectivité des visions du monde, l’idéalisme de la représentation, la théorie esthétique des arts, le dogme de l’abstraction des notions. Renversant l’ordre habituellement suivi par les critiques, j’ai essayé de tenir le roman pour un éclaircissement, et non pour une simple transposition, de la théorie dont Proust était parti. J’ai supposé qu’il y avait quelque chose comme un éclaircissement romanesque des propositions obscures, paradoxales, égarantes, de Proust théoricien. (V. D.)

Author : Andre Benhaim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781351540315

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The Strange M. Proust by Andre Benhaim Pdf

The strange M. Proust - the narrator, the author, and the embodiment of A la Recherche du Temps perdu - is now so canonical a writer that his very strangeness is easily overlooked. His book made of other books, his epic composed of extraordinary miniatures, his orderly structure where every law is subverted, his chronology where time can be undone and his geography where places can superimpose: in these, and many other ways, Proust continues to astonish even readers who have engaged with him for their entire careers. In this book, arising from the Princeton symposium of 2006, major critics come together to offer provocative readings of a work which is at the same time classical and unusual, French and foreign, familiar and strange. The book is dedicated to the memory of Malcolm Bowie (1943-2007), whose keynote address was one of his last major lectures. Other contributors include David Ellison, Anne Simon, Eugene Nicole, Joseph Brami, Raymonde Coudert, Christie McDonald, Michael Wood and Antoine Compagnon.

Author : Pierre Macherey
Publisher : Editions Amsterdam/Multitudes
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Literature
ISBN : 2354801270

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Proust by Pierre Macherey Pdf

Proust, écrivain et théoricien de l'art, n'a cessé de réfléchir aux rapports qu'entretiennent philosophie et littérature. Dans cet ouvrage, Pierre Macherey interroge la manière dont on peut faire de la philosophie avec du roman, et quel genre assez inhabituel de philosophie peut émerger sous cette forme. L'exemple de Proust est à cet égard très parlant : si l'intérêt philosophique de son fameux cycle A la recherche du temps perdu est incontestable, la nature de cet intérêt se dérobe aux critères de la philosophie en titre. La recherche de vérité à laquelle se livre Proust est inséparable des méandres que parcourt l'intelligence stylistique qui définit son travail d'écrivain ; un écrivain qui pense en écrivant, et qui ne pense qu'en écrivant. Au cours de cette expérience philosophique parfaitement originale, littérature et philosophie, sans se confondre, communiquent et se stimulent réciproquement. Pierre Macherey suit ici pas à pas, et comme à l'aveugle, les tours et détours d'une réflexion qui fait texte en se romançant, et s'actualise à travers cet exercice que Proust a poussé à un degré de sophistication rarement égalé.

Author : Paulo Eduardo Carvalho,Rui Carvalho Homen
Publisher : Universidade do Porto
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9728932332

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Plural Beckett Pluriel by Paulo Eduardo Carvalho,Rui Carvalho Homen Pdf

Author : Erika Fulop
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351192491

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Proust, the One, and the Many by Erika Fulop Pdf

"One of the many aspects that make Marcel Prousts A la recherche du temps perdu such a complex and subtle work is its engagement with metaphysical questions. The disparate nature of the narrators experiences, hypotheses, and statements has generated a number of conflicting interpretations, based on parallels with the thought of one or another philosopher from Plato to Leibniz, Spinoza, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Bergson, or Deleuze. Through the analysis of the narrators two seemingly incompatible perceptions of the world, which reveal reality to be either one or infinitely multiple, Erika Fuelop proposes a reading of the novel that reconciles the opposites. Rather than being undecided or self-contradictory, the narrative thematizes the insufficiency of the dualist perspective and invites the reader to take a step beyond it. Erika Fuelop is an independent researcher, whose doctoral thesis completed at the University of Aberdeen is at the basis of this monograph."

Author : Thomas Baldwin
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Art
ISBN : 3039103237

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The Material Object in the Work of Marcel Proust by Thomas Baldwin Pdf

This book describes the development of Proust's treatment of material objects from his earliest work Les Plaisirs et les jours to his mature novel À la recherche du temps perdu. It examines the literary influences on Proust's way with objects in the light of certain critical texts and reconsiders the significance of Ruskin. As the movement from unreflective and spontaneous representation to a meta-narrative of consciousness is traced, some questions as to the banality of the 'banal object' arise. The meta-narrative finds resonance in a peculiarly Proustian pictoriality which has been largely unnoticed. It resides in descriptions where objects appear simultaneously or at different times as things in paintings and in the real. By exploring connections between Proust's pictoriality and his reflections on 'matière' and 'surface', the author suggests a radical approach to the modernism of À la recherche du temps perdu.

Author : Anna Elsner,Thomas Stern
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 735 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000790634

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The Proustian Mind by Anna Elsner,Thomas Stern Pdf

When Marcel Proust started to work on In Search of Lost Time in 1908, he wrote this question in his notebook: ‘Should I make it a novel, a philosophical study, am I a novelist?’ Throughout his famous multi-volume work, Proust directly engages several philosophers, and few novels are as thoroughly saturated with philosophical themes and concepts as In Search of Lost Time. The Proustian Mind is an outstanding reference source to the rich philosophical range of Proust’s work and the first major volume of its kind. Including 31 chapters by an international team of contributors, the volume is divided into seven clear parts: Proust’s life and works metaphysics and epistemology mind and language aesthetics ethics gender and sexuality predecessors, contemporaries and successors. Within these sections, key Proustian themes are explored from a philosophical standpoint, including time, the self, memory, imagination, jealousy, beauty, love, subjectivity and desire. The final section considers Proust in relation to important philosophers such as Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Bergson, Merleau-Ponty, Sartre, de Beauvoir and Deleuze. The Proustian Mind is essential reading for those studying aesthetics, philosophy of literature, phenomenology and ethics, and will also be of interest to those in literature studying modernism, French literature and the relationship between literature and philosophy.

Author : Adam Watt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107512146

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Marcel Proust in Context by Adam Watt Pdf

This volume sets Marcel Proust's masterwork, Á 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 translation and the broader assimilation of his work into twentieth- and twenty-first-century culture.

Author : Nathalie Aubert
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351197458

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Proust by Nathalie Aubert Pdf

"In this innovative study, Nathalie Aubert demonstrates how the experience of translating Ruskin led Proust to see creative writing as itself an act of translation. She makes use of phenomenology to show how the Proustian metaphor operates as translation as it bridges the gap between reality and language."

Author : Milivoje Pejovic
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Literature
ISBN : UOM:39015056209466

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Marcel Proust, une œuvre philosophique by Milivoje Pejovic Pdf

Author : Vincent Ferré,Raffaello Rossi
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004352674

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Marcel Proust, roman moderne by Vincent Ferré,Raffaello Rossi Pdf

Proust et le roman moderne, perspectives comparatistes confronte les lectures de l’œuvre proustienne par des écrivains modernes : Genet, Barnes, Cohen, Pessoa, Beckett, Joyce ou Kafka... montrant comment le roman proustien se dessine aujourd’hui, au gré des réceptions et des réécritures. Proust et le roman moderne, perspectives comparatistes confronts readings of A la Recherche by modern writers such as Salinas, Beckett, Genet, Barnes, Cohen, Pessoa, Joyce and Kafka ... These “comparatist perspectives” shed a light on the continuing history and reception of Proust’s novel.

Author : Zakir Paul
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2024-08-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780691261539

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Disarming Intelligence by Zakir Paul Pdf

A critical account of the idea of intelligence in modern French literature and thought In the late nineteenth century, psychologists and philosophers became intensely interested in the possibility of quantifying, measuring, and evaluating “intelligence,” and using it to separate and compare individuals. Disarming Intelligence analyzes how this polyvalent term was consolidated and contested in competing discourses, from fin de siècle psychology and philosophy to literature, criticism, and cultural polemics around the First World War. Zakir Paul examines how Marcel Proust, Henri Bergson, Paul Valéry, and the critics of the influential Nouvelle revue française registered, negotiated, and subtly countered the ways intelligence was invoked across the political and aesthetic spectrum. For these writers, intelligence fluctuates between an individual, sovereign faculty for analyzing the world and something collective, accidental, and contingent. Disarming Intelligence shows how literary and critical styles questioned, suspended, and reimagined what intelligence could be by bringing elements of uncertainty and potentiality into its horizon. The book also explores interwar political tensions—from the extreme right to Walter Benjamin’s engaged essays on contemporary French writers. Finally, a brief coda recasts current debates about artificial intelligence by comparing them to these earlier crises of intelligence. By drawing together and untangling competing conceptions of intelligence, Disarming Intelligence exposes its mercurial but influential and urgent role in literary and cultural politics.

Author : Katherine Elkins
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-09
Category : Philosophy in literature
ISBN : 9780190921576

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Proust's in Search of Lost Time by Katherine Elkins Pdf

"Unlike most fiction writers, Proust was trained in philosophy. In fact, he even considered writing a philosophical treatise instead of the novel we know so well. This hesitation about what form his writing should take still haunts his final choice of a novel, which is both philosophical, and yet, not philosophy. Take your pick of philosophers, from Plato to Nietzsche, and you can easily find an essay or even a book arguing that this particular philosopher most applies to Proust. But as one plunges into the narrative that he finally wrote, one is struck by the fact that In Search of Lost Time feels nothing like what we often call a philosophical novel, or even, a novel of ideas. Instead, philosophical reflection lies in the shadows of his fictional world, a sort of parallel life that can be found in the underweave"--

Author : Allen Thiher
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611172560

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Understanding Marcel Proust by Allen Thiher Pdf

Understanding Marcel Proust includes an overview of Marcel Proust's development as a writer, addressing both works published and unpublished in his lifetime, and then offers an in-depth interpretation of Proust's major novel, In Search of Lost Time, relating it to the Western literary tradition while also demonstrating its radical newness as a narrative. In his introduction Allen Thiher outlines Proust's development in the context of the political and artistic life of the Third Republic, arguing that everything Proust wrote before In Search of Lost Time was an experiment in sorting out whether he wanted to be a writer of critical theory or of fiction. Ultimately, Thiher observes, all these experiments had a role in the elaboration of the novel. Proust became both theorist and fiction writer by creating a bildungsroman narrating a writer's education. What is perhaps most original about Thiher's interpretation, however, is his demonstration that Proust removed his aged narrator from the novel's temporal flow to achieve a kind of fictional transcendence. Proust never situates his narrator in historical time, which allows him to demonstrate concretely what he sees as the function of art: the truth of the absolute particular removed from time's determinations. The artist that the narrator hopes to become at the end of the novel must pursue his own individual truths—those in fact that the novel has narrated, for him and the reader, up to the novel's conclusion. Written in a language accessible to upper-level undergraduates as well as literate general readers, Understanding Marcel Proust simultaneously addresses a scholarly public aware of the critical arguments that Proust's work has generated. Thiher's study should make Proust's In Search of Lost Time more widely accessible by explicating its structure and themes.

Author : Suzanne Guerlac
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350152250

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Proust, Photography, and the Time of Life by Suzanne Guerlac Pdf

Through an engagement with the philosophies of Proust's contemporaries, Félix Ravaisson, Henri Bergson, and Georg Simmel, Suzanne Guerlac presents an original reading of Remembrance of Things Past (A la recherche du temps perdu). Challenging traditional interpretations, she argues that Proust's magnum opus is not a melancholic text, but one that records the dynamic time of change and the complex vitality of the real. Situating Proust's novel within a modernism of money, and broadening the exploration through references to cultural events and visual technologies (commercial photography, photojournalism, pornography, the regulation of prostitution, the Panama Scandal, and the Dreyfus Affair), this study reveals that Proust's subject is not the esthetic recuperation of loss but rather the adventure of living in time, on both the individual and the social level, at a concrete historical moment.