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Proust - Philosophy of the Novel (Hardcover)
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Proust - Philosophy of the Novel (Hardcover)
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Through the voice of the narrator of Remebrance of Things Past,
Proust observes of the painter Elstir that the paintings are bolder
than the artist; Elstir the painter is bolder than Elstir the
theorist. This book applies the same distinction to Proust; the
Proustian novel is bolder than Proust the theorist. By this the
author means that the novel is philosophically bolder, that it
pursues further the task Proust identifies as the writer's work: to
explain life; to elucidate what has been lived in obscurity and
confusion. In this, the novelist and the philosopher share a common
goal: to clarify the obscure in order to arrive at the truth. It
follows that Proust's real philosophy of the novel is to be found
not in the speculative passages of Remembrance, which merely echo
the philosophical commonplaces of his time, but in the truly
novelistic or narrative portions of his text. In Against
Sainte-Beuve, Proust sets forth his ideas about literature in the
form of a critique of the method of Sainte-Beuve. Scholars who have
studied Proust's notebooks describe the way in which this essay was
taken over by bits of narrative originally intended as
illustrations supporting its theses. The philosophical portions of
Remembrance were not added to the narrative as an afterthought,
designed to bring out its meaning. What happened was the reverse:
the novel was born of a desire to illustrate the propositions of
the essay. Why then should we not find the novel more
philosophically advanced than the essay? Reversing the usual order
followed by literary critics, the author interprets the novel as an
elucidation, and not as a simple transposition, of the essay. The
book is not only a general interpretationof Proust's novel and its
construction; it includes detailed discussions of such topics as
literature and philosophy, the nature of literary genres, the
poetics of the novel, the definition of art, modernity and
postmodernity, and the sociology of literature.
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