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Proust, the Body and Literary Form (Cambridge Studies in French) Book

Michael Finn examines the vogue for nervous afflictions in France in the late nineteenth century, and compares Proust's anxieties about writing his novel to the concerns of earlier writers suffering from nervous conditions, including Flaubert, Baudelaire, Nerval and the Goncourt brothers. Once Proust cast off his fear of being a nervous weakling, he began to make fun of the supposed purity of the novel form. Hysteria becomes a key to Proustian narrative, closely related to a writing technique which undermines many conventions of fiction.Read More

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  • 0521027543
  • 9780521027540
  • Michael R. Finn
  • 2 November 2006
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 228
  • New Ed
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