Stéréotypes nationaux et création romanesque dans «Á la Recherche du temps perdu»
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2003
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Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM
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National stereotypes and literary creation in Á la recherche du temps perdu
Abstract
In his novel cycle Á la recherche du temps perdu (1913-1927), Marcel Proust takes up a long-lasting
process of psychological analysis carried on in the first person. This person represents, in a way, human
nature and the reader's thought as well. Therefore, it seems that the question of national stereotypes
should not have found its place in this kind of work, in which the fundamental psychological project did
not allow the author to caricature national particularisms. Yet, they do find their incarnations in the
whole series of characters (Poznań archives enable us to show even the hidden source of one of them)
in order to subject this stereotypical vision to analysis and more profound criticism. What is peculiar,
however, is that in the final analysis, prejudices against foreign nations are positively re-assessed
because they help to understand the nature of the novelist's vision and literary activity.
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Proust Marcel, Á la recherche du temps perdu
Citation
Studia Romanica Posnaniensia, 2003, vol. 30, pp. 189-207
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83-232-1270-8