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- Title
Chronos/Chroma: Yellow Figures in Proust's "La Prisonnière" and Bely's "Petersburg."
- Authors
Doran, Sabine
- Abstract
Through the consideration of the color yellow, this article explores the convergence of time and color, in a series of texts and visual images from the first half of the 20th century. It is at this moment that yellow becomes an emblematic presence, a stigmatizing force that alternates between the Medieval and the Modern, East and West. The paper treats "yellow figures" in two novels which appeared between the two world wars: the fifth volume of Marcel Proust's "Aacute; la Recherche du temps perdu, La Prisonnière" and Andrei Bely's symbolist novel "Petersburg." Yellow chromo-topes reveal the ambivalence of the color yellow as the product of temporal and geographical displacement in modernist texts. At once the color of light, enlightenment and value, yellow is also the color of degradation, threat, abjection and fate.
- Subjects
YELLOW; COLOR in literature; LA Prisonniere (Book); PETERSBURG (Book); PROUST, Marcel, 1871-1922; BELY, Andrey, 1880-1934
- Publication
Comparatist, 2004, Vol 28, p53
- ISSN
0195-7678
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1353/com.2004.0006