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Michael Finn examines the vogue for nervous afflictions in France in the late nineteenth century, and compares Proust's anxieties about writing In Search of Lost Time to the concerns of earlier writers suffering from nervous conditions, including Flaubert, Baudelaire, Nerval and the Goncourt brothers. Once Proust cast off his fear of being a nervous weakling, he was able to make fun of the supposed purity of the novel form. The author shows how hysteria becomes a key to Proustian narrative, and discusses how together with Proust's use of pastiche, narrative pranks and games, it unlocks a writing technique that undermines conventional fiction.
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Michael Finn examines the vogue for nervous afflictions in France in the late nineteenth century, and compares Proust's anxieties about writing his novel to the concerns of earlier writers suffering from nervous conditions, including Flaubert, Baudelaire, Nerval and the Goncourt brothers. Once Proust cast off his fear of being a nervous weakling, he began to make fun of the supposed purity of the novel form. Hysteria becomes a key to Proustian narrative, closely related to a writing technique which undermines many conventions of fiction.
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"By viewing A la recherche as a narative of disease...Finn succeeds in clarifying many aspects of the novelist's manner and matter...Finn has given us a splendid book." Gerald Prince, Nineteenth Century French Studies
"...an intriguing psychological portrait in which Proust the writer finds a cure for his own inability to write literature by conceiving of literary form in dialogic terms--which allowed him to write the novel that he always knew was within him." Choice
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- PublisherCambridge University Press
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0521641896
- ISBN 13 9780521641890
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages226
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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. This 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. Michael Finn examines the vogue for nervous afflictions in France in the late nineteenth century, and compares Proust's anxieties about writing In Search of Lost Time to the concerns of earlier writers suffering from nervous conditions, including Flaubert, Baudelaire, Nerval and the Goncourt brothers. Once Proust cast off his fear of being a nervous weakling, he was able to make fun of the supposed purity of the novel form. The author shows how hysteria becomes a key to Proustian narrative, and discusses how together with Proust's use of pastiche, narrative pranks and games, it unlocks a writing technique that undermines conventional fiction. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780521641890
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