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Recherche de Proust

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Plus d'un demi-siècle après la publication posthume du dernier volume de La Recherche du temps perdu et, à travers cette œuvre, l'ensemble du texte produit par Proust (œuvres de jeunesse, essais, chroniques, œuvres inachevées et ébauches inédites) qui la préfigure et lui fait écho, reste pour la critique moderne un des lieux les plus troublants et les plus stimulants. Dix études récentes d'inspirations et de méthodes très diverses (thématique, génétique, structurale) manifestent ici cette actualité du texte proustien dans un travail critique qui lui doit tant, à la fois comme objet et comme exemple de recherche.

Table:

Gérard Genette: "La question de l'écriture"
Leo Bersani: "Déguisements du moi et art fragmentaire"
Roland Barthes: "Une idée de recherche"
Jean Rousset: "Les premières rencontres"
Marcel Muller: "Étrangeté ou, si l'on veut, naturel"
Serge Gaubert: "Le jeu de l'alphabet"
John Porter Houston: "Les structures temporelles dans "A la recherche du temps perdu"
Raymonde Debray-Genette: "Thème, figure, épisode : genèse des aubépines"
Joan Rosasco: "Aux sources de la Vivonne"
Philippe Lejeune: "Les carafes de la Vivonne"

192 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 1980

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Gérard Genette

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Genette was largely responsible for the reintroduction of a rhetorical vocabulary into literary criticism, for example such terms as trope and metonymy. Additionally his work on narrative, best known in English through the selection Narrative Discourse: An Essay in Method, has been of importance.[2] His major work is the multi-part Figures series, of which Narrative Discourse is a section. His trilogy on textual transcendence, which has also been quite influential, is composed of Introduction à l'architexte (1979), Palimpsests: Literature in the Second Degree (1982), and Paratexts. Thresholds of interpretation (1997).[3]
His international influence is not as great as that of some others identified with structuralism, such as Roland Barthes and Claude Lévi-Strauss; his work is more often included in selections or discussed in secondary works than studied in its own right. Terms and techniques originating in his vocabulary and systems have, however, become widespread, such as the term paratext for prefaces, introductions, illustrations or other material accompanying the text, or hypotext for the sources of the text.

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January 3, 2026
C’était hyper dense, je trouve ça vraiment fou de pouvoir trouver autant à écrire à propos d’un seul paragraphe mais c’est aussi génial.
Beaucoup de choses intéressantes !!
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