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- Title
ON GARRÉTA ON PROUST.
- Authors
BALDWIN, THOMAS
- Abstract
This article explores Anne F. Garréta's engagements with Marcel Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu in La Décomposition (1999). I argue that Garréta's various 'rewritings' of Proust's novel supply a new image of the productive tensions between literary works and critical or novelistic approaches to them and simultaneously resist a tendency to reproduce and consume Proust's work as a cultural fetish. In examining Garréta's creation of a series of interfaces with passages in À la recherche, I suggest that some readers of La Décomposition encounter a 'virtual' text that shares some of the features of both authors' novels but is identical to neither. I also consider the ways in which Roland Barthes's understanding of Proust and of Proust criticism more generally can help us to appreciate the significance of what Garréta has done.
- Subjects
LA Decomposition (Book); GARRETA, Anne, 1962-; IN Search of Lost Time (Book : Proust); SERIAL murderers in literature; BARTHES, Roland, 1915-1980; FRENCH fiction; LITERARY criticism; FRENCH literature; 20TH century French literature
- Publication
French Studies, 2016, Vol 70, Issue 1, p33
- ISSN
0016-1128
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1093/fs/knv227