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Proust, Class, and Nation (Hardcover)
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Proust, Class, and Nation (Hardcover)
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Writing in 1927, Julien Benda described France as being afflicted
by the twin scourges of narrow, class-based politics and rabid
nationalism. He nevertheless identified Marcel Proust (who had died
in 1922) as a writer who had refused to embrace the ideological
narrowness of his age. Edward J. Hughes seeks to assess how Proust
and his novel A la recherche du temps perdu might be understood in
relation to issues of class and nation. A la recherche was produced
in momentous times. As an extended textual construction, first
conceived of in 1908 and the last tranche of which appeared
posthumously almost two decades later, it was assembled against a
backdrop of major historical events: pre-war tensions in the wake
of the Dreyfus Affair and the Separation of Church and State
(issues on which Proust had campaigned publicly); the First World
War and the atmosphere of narrow nationalism and Germanophobia
which the conflict generated; and the continuing polarization in
class politics in the years after the First World War. These all
find echoes in A la recherche and Hughes establishes how the
exposure given to questions of class and nation needs to be
understood historically. He demonstrates that the frequently
entrenched positions of Proust's contemporaries at times square
with the language and images of social conservativism to be found
in A la recherche. Yet alongside that, Hughes unearths evidence
that points to Proust as a free-floating, often playful, iconoclast
and radical commentator who, as Theodor Adorno observed, resisted
bourgeois compartmentalization.
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