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PROUST Philosophy oft he Novel PROUST Philosophy oft he Novel VINCENT DESCOMBES Translated by Catherine Lnance Macksey STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS Stanfard, California 1992 Translated with the assistance of the French Ministry of Culture Stanford University Press Stanford, California © r992 by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University Printed in the United States of America CIP data are at the end of the book Proust.· Philosophy oft he Novelwas originally published in French under the ride Proust: Philosophie du roman, © r987 by Les Editions de Minuit And so I am forced to depict errors, but without feeling bound to say that I hold them to be errors. So rnuch the worse for me if the reader believes I hold them to be the truth. -Marcel Proust, letter to Jacques Rivière, February 7, I9I4 Contents Abbreviations ix Introduction I 1 The Novel: A Prosaic Genre 13 2 The Unknown Philosopher 21 Lifè and Opinions oft he Pseudo-Marcel 24 3 The Philosophical Novel 28 4 Mental Optics 36 Note on Practical Egoism 53 Deceit and Truth in the Novel 55 Note on the Nature ofP hilosophical Clarification 74 Note on Textualism 78 6 A Question of Poetics 80 Note on Romanticism 89 7 The Ontology of the Work of Art 90 8 The Modern Regime in Art 105 Note on Concepts ofM odernity 135 z;w Contents 9 Marcel Becomes a Writer I40 ro The Philosophy of Combray I57 Note on the Comparison of Cosmologies I71 II Am I Invited? I78 Theory ofI nvitations I8I 12 The Invention of the Inner Life I95 13 The Inner Book of Impressions 2I8 14 The Dostoyevski Sicle of Mme de Sévigné 239 15 In the Atelier of Elstir 253 16 Self-Realization in the Institution of Literature 272 Note on the Beautiful 30I Bib!iography 309 Index JI7 Abbreviations References to Remembrance of Things Past (t ranslated by C. K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin, Random House, 1981) are cited in the text by the abbreviation of the individual work, the number of the volume in which it appears, and the page number (e.g., BG, 1, 306). Silent corrections have been made where the author's commentary requires a more literal translation. Volume 1 sw Swann's Way BG Within a Budding Grove Volume II GW The Guermantes Way CP Cities oft he Plain Volume III C The Captive F The Fugitive TR Time Regained Other abbreviations are as follows: ASB Against Sainte-Beuve JS jean Santeuil
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