This 1999 study examines the connections between Proust's
fin-de-siecle 'nervousness' and his apprehensions regarding
literary form. Michael Finn shows that Proust's anxieties both
about bodily weakness and about novel-writing were fed by a set of
intriguing psychological and medical texts, and were mirrored in
the nerve-based afflictions of earlier writers including Flaubert,
Baudelaire, Nerval and the Goncourt brothers. Finn argues that once
Proust cast off his concerns about being a nervous weakling he was
freed to poke fun both at the supposed purity of the novel form.
Hysteria - as a figure and as a theme - becomes a key to the
Proustian narrative, and a certain kind of wordless, bodily copying
of gesture and event is revealed to be at the heart of a writing
technique which undermines many of the conventions of fiction.
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