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Proust, the Body and Literary Form

Proust, the Body and Literary Form

Finn, Michael R.
Sheringham, Michael
Michael R., Finn

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Series: Cambridge Studies in French, Book 59

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0521027543
ISBN13: 9780521027540
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Nov 2 2006
Pages: 228
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.52 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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.

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