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Title: PROUST, THE BODY AND LITERARY FORM
By: Michael R. Finn, Michael Sheringham
Format: Paperback

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Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pub. date: 31 May, 2006
Series: Cambridge Studies in French No. 59
Pages: 228
Description: This 1999 study examines Proust's involvement with fin-de-siecle 'hysteria', and its impact on the writing of his great novel.
Synopsis: 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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Imprint: Cambridge University Press
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