Proust, the One, and the Many
Identity and Difference in A la recherche du temps perdu
Erika Fülöp
Click cover to enlarge | Legenda 1 June 2012 • 216pp ISBN: 978-1-907975-32-5 (hardback) • RRP £80, $110, €95 ISBN: 978-1-351192-51-4 (Taylor & Francis ebook) One of the many aspects that make Marcel Proust’s A la recherche du temps perdu such a complex and subtle work is its engagement with metaphysical questions. The disparate nature of the narrator’s experiences, hypotheses, and statements has generated a number of conflicting interpretations, based on parallels with the thought of one or another philosopher from Plato to Leibniz, Spinoza, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Bergson, or Deleuze. Through the analysis of the narrator’s two seemingly incompatible perceptions of the world, which reveal reality to be either one or infinitely multiple, Erika Fülöp proposes a reading of the novel that reconciles the opposites. Rather than being undecided or self-contradictory, the narrative thematizes the insufficiency of the dualist perspective and invites the reader to take a step beyond it. Erika Fülöp completed her doctoral research at the University of Aberdeen and is now a College Lecturer in French at New College, Oxford. Reviews:
Bibliography entry: Fülöp, Erika, Proust, the One, and the Many: Identity and Difference in A la recherche du temps perdu (Legenda, 2012) First footnote reference: 35 Erika Fülöp, Proust, the One, and the Many: Identity and Difference in A la recherche du temps perdu (Legenda, 2012), p. 21. Subsequent footnote reference: 37 Fülöp, p. 47. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.) Bibliography entry: Fülöp, Erika. 2012. Proust, the One, and the Many: Identity and Difference in A la recherche du temps perdu (Legenda) Example citation: ‘A quotation occurring on page 21 of this work’ (Fülöp 2012: 21). Example footnote reference: 35 Fülöp 2012: 21. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.)
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