L’ironie proustienne : l’impossibilité de connaître et les projections imaginaires

This paper aims to analyze an excerpt from In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (1919), the second volume of In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust. Fundamental to the understanding of the whole novel, the fragment reveals an epistemological observation: everything is fleeting, the essential...

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Main Author: Diana Stroescu
Format: article
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Published: Editura Universităţii Aurel Vlaicu Arad 2021
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/88fa85787e2645b9bb61002c7dd71a27
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Summary:This paper aims to analyze an excerpt from In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (1919), the second volume of In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust. Fundamental to the understanding of the whole novel, the fragment reveals an epistemological observation: everything is fleeting, the essential remains obscure. While the narrator contemplates the changing figures of Albertine, his way of thinking takes an ontological turn, by giving rise to the idea of the mobility of beings and of the self