Marcel Proust and Spanish America : from critical response to narrative dialogue /
"The multivolume novel of Marcel Proust A la recherche du temps perdu (1913-27) began to receive attention in Spanish America in 1920, and, as Herbert Craig meticulously shows, this French Connection would continue throughout the twentieth century. He traces it both through the literary critici...
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Bucknell University Press ; Associated University Presses,
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Table of Contents:
- Point of Departure: An Intimate Conversation between an Aspiring French Writer and a Young Pianist Born in Venezuela
- 1 Reception and Critical Appreciation of A la recherche du temps perdu in Spanish America
- 2. The Early Stages and A Definition of the Literary Relation between Proust and Spanish American Writers
- 3. On High Society: Le cote de Guermantes in the New World
- 4. On Love, Illness, and Consciousness: New World Variations on "Un amour de Swann," La prisonniere, and Sodome et Gomorrhe
- 5. On Art, Artists and their Admirers: "A l'ombre des artistes en fleurs" in Spanish America
- 6. On Lost Time and the Search for It: Spiritual Equivalents of "Combray" and Albertine disparue
- 7. On Involuntary Memory: From Applying the Lessons of Le temps retrouve to Dialoguing with Them
- 8. On Becoming a Writer: Following Proust's Way from "Combray" to Le temps retrouve
- Final Remarks: From Attention to Detail to the Creation of Vast Syntactical and Narrative Structures for a New Poetic Vision
- A Bibliography of Marcel Proust in Spanish America.
- Point of Departure: An Intimate Conversation between an Aspiring French Writer and a Young Pianist Born in Venezuela
- 1 Reception and Critical Appreciation of A la recherche du temps perdu in Spanish America
- 2. The Early Stages and A Definition of the Literary Relation between Proust and Spanish American Writers
- 3. On High Society: Le cote de Guermantes in the New World
- 4. On Love, Illness, and Consciousness: New World Variations on "Un amour de Swann," La prisonniere, and Sodome et Gomorrhe
- 5. On Art, Artists and their Admirers: "A l'ombre des artistes en fleurs" in Spanish America
- 6. On Lost Time and the Search for It: Spiritual Equivalents of "Combray" and Albertine disparue
- 7. On Involuntary Memory: From Applying the Lessons of Le temps retrouve to Dialoguing with Them
- 8. On Becoming a Writer: Following Proust's Way from "Combray" to Le temps retrouve
- Point of Departure: An Intimate Conversation between an Aspiring French Writer and a Young Pianist Born in Venezuela 13
- 1 Reception and Critical Appreciation of A la recherche du temps perdu in Spanish America 21
- The Introduction of Marcel Proust in Spanish America (1920-1928) 25
- From Losing a Superficial Proust to Gaining a More Profound One (1929-1949) 32
- Establishing a Tradition of Reading and Writing about the Recherche (1950-1970) 39
- From the Proust Centennial until the Recent Past (1971-2000) 46
- 2. The Early Stages and A Definition of the Literary Relation between Proust and Spanish American Writers 56
- The First Examples: El cantico espiritual (1923) and Ifigenia (1924) 61
- The Proustian Apprenticeship of a Generation: The Contemporaneos Rewrite A l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs 71
- A Narrative Discussion on Proust in the Sur Group 77
- Swann's Way and Other Ways of Following Proust 95
- 3. On High Society: Le cote de Guermantes in the New World 99
- A Debate over the Appropriateness of Proust's Work as a Model for Spanish America 101
- Attempts at Reconciliation: Spanish Americans in Paris and Proustians in Spanish America 109
- Using Proust to Defend the Influence of France and the Creativity of the Individual 121
- 4. On Love, Illness, and Consciousness: New World Variations on "Un amour de Swann," La prisonniere, and Sodome et Gomorrhe 134
- Learning to Understand the Connection between Love and Illness 137
- Efforts to Understand Homosexual Love 145
- Going Beyond the Psychological Novel during and since the Boom 159
- 5. On Art, Artists and their Admirers: "A l'ombre des artistes en fleurs" in Spanish America 173
- Music and Art in the Novel: Impressionist Descriptions and the Life of an Artist 177
- Updated Interpretations of Art and the Artist: Rayuela and Its Followers 186
- Mature Writers in the Novel 198
- 6. On Lost Time and the Search for It: Spiritual Equivalents of "Combray" and Albertine disparue 212
- Childhood as a Lost Paradise 216
- The Loss of a Beloved and Attempts at Recovery 227
- Time as Change and as a Destructive Force 237
- A Culmination of the Themes of Time in the Work of Gabriel Garcia Marquez 244
- 7. On Involuntary Memory: From Applying the Lessons of Le temps retrouve to Dialoguing with Them 254
- Learning How to Integrate Proustian Memory into a Narrative Structure 259
- Proustian Memory and Bourgeois Sensuality (1955-1970) 265
- Four Extended Narrative Dialogues on Searching for the Past and for Wholeness 274
- 8. On Becoming a Writer: Following Proust's Way from "Combray" to Le temps retrouve 296
- Achieving Success in Writing (and Reading) 299
- Notebooks Written in Paris 307
- Narrative Confrontations with Failure 317
- Final Remarks: From Attention to Detail to the Creation of Vast Syntactical and Narrative Structures for a New Poetic Vision 333
- A Bibliography of Marcel Proust in Spanish America 367
- Texts by Marcel Proust in Translation 367
- Literary Criticism of Proust's Work Written or Published in Spanish America 371
- Studies on Literary or Personal Relations between Proust and Spanish Americans 409
- Poems, Plays, Pastiches, and Parodies about Proust 417
- Testimonials and Other Texts which Demonstrate a Personal Interest in Proust 419
- Literary Works and Memoirs 421
- Critical Studies 425.
- Final Remarks: From Attention to Detail to the Creation of Vast Syntactical and Narrative Structures for a New Poetic Vision
- A Bibliography of Marcel Proust in Spanish America