The Evolution of Proust's «Combray» by Maureen A. Ramsden
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The Evolution of Proust's «Combray»


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This book primarily investigates whether the most important work in the development of Marcel Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu was Contre Sainte-Beuve, often assigned this role, or the first, unfinished and, in Proust's lifetime, unpublished novel, Jean Santeuil. Given the length of the final work, this book focuses on the beginning of the first volume, Du Côté de chez Swann, known as «Combray». Proust was writing his work on the French literary critic Sainte-Beuve, when it appeared to evolve into the final novel. However, much of the material found in the early work, Jean Santeuil, can also be found in À la recherche, but usually in a very different form or context. By his abandonment of Jean Santeuil, Proust showed he was still searching for the right material and also, even more challenging, a suitable form in which to present it. The technique adopted for the main body of this work is to follow, by means of close readings, the evolution of a character, a place or an episode, from its earliest appearance in the avant-texte, both published and unpublished, to its final place in «Combray». The extra layer of the avant-texte also leads to further elucidation of the meaning of this rich and complex novel. Finally, the new presentation of the material in «Combray» reveals the novel's technical evolution to that of a modernist work.


About the Author: Maureen A. Ramsden gained her PhD at Harvard. She then had some short-term posts, including St Andrews and King's College, London. Her present affiliation is the University of Hull. Her main areas of research are nineteenth- and twentieth-century French literature. Her research centres on the borders which separate factual and fictional documentary works. Her monograph in this area is entitled Crossing Borders: The Interrelation of Fact and Fiction in Historical Works, Travel Tales, Autobiography and Reportage (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2016). As the present monograph shows, she is also interested in the evolution of Proust's great novel, À la recherche du temps perdu. Her next project is on structure in À la recherche.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781789977851
  • Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
  • Publisher Imprint: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
  • Edition: New edition
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 10 mm
  • Weight: 295 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1789977851
  • Publisher Date: 30 Oct 2020
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 166
  • Series Title: Modern French Identities
  • Sub Title: A Genetic Study
  • Width: 152 mm


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