The Growth of A la recherche du temps perdu : : A Chronological Examination of Proust's Manuscripts from 1909 to 1914 / / Anthony R. Pugh.

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• VerfasserIn: Pugh, Anthony R.,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: University of Toronto Romance Series
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For forty years, scholars have had access to a vast array of documents that reveal the stages by which a few modest episodes grew into the vast and complex structure the world reveres as Marcel Proust's unique novel, A la recherche du temps perdu. Although many soundings have been made in this corpus, which comprises manuscript pages, exercise books, typescripts, and publisher's proofs, Anthony Pugh's study is the first attempt to provide a comprehensive view of the story that the documents reveal, at least in the years before the outbreak of war in 1914.A crucial feature of the research is the rigorous establishment of the chronological sequence of the documents, a task complicated by Proust's habit of returning to sketches already written, amplifying them with extensive additions in the margins and on the facing pages, often reorganizing them, and finally reworking them in another form, sometimes physically intercalating pages of the first version into the new one. Anthony Pugh analyses with scrupulous care every document, facing all the multi-faceted problems they present, and showing why many solutions, some of them widely accepted by Proust scholars, have to be questioned.It emerges from this investigation that however unsystematic Proust was in his method of composing, there is an inner logic in the way he oscillates between writing new incidents and editing texts already extant. Now, for the first time, the whole story of the way in which A la recherche du temps perdu grew during the first six years of its gestation is told in full, both in its general thrust and in its fine details.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Abbreviations -- Introduction to Volume Two -- Abbreviations -- Part One. Towards the Typescript of 'Combray' (1909) -- chapter I. The Foundations (May 1909) -- chapter 2. A First Version of 'Combray' (June to August 1909) -- chapter 3. Beyond Combray, and Back Again (August to October 1909) -- chapter 4. Beyond Combray, and Back... Again (October to November 1909) -- chapter 5. The 1909 Typescript (December 1909) -- Part Two. Towards a Complete Typescript (1910-1911) -- chapter 6. The Sequel to Combray (January to March 1910) -- chapter 7. New Material for Combray and Querqueville (April to May 1910) -- chapter 8. Guermantes (May to August 1910) -- chapter 9. The Final Sequence (Winter 1910-1911) -- Part Three. The Typescript of 1911-1912 -- chapter 10. 'Combray' (Spring and Summer 1911) -- chapter 11. 'Un Amour de Swann' (September to October 1911) -- chapter 12. 'Noms de pays: le nom' (Winter 1911-1912) -- chapter 13. 'Noms de pays: le pays' (March to June 1912) -- chapter 14. 'Le Cote de Guermantes' (June to Early August 1912) -- Part Four. Towards Publication -- chapter 15. Revising the Typescript (August to October 1912) -- chapter 16. The Grasset Proofs -- chapter 17. Beyond the Grasset Volume -- Conclusion -- Appendix. Information concerning Proust Documents -- Bibliography