Marcel Proust and Spanish America : from critical response to narrative dialogue / Herbert E. Craig.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Craig, Herbert E.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922--Appreciation--Latin America.

Proust, Marcel.

Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922--Influence.

Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922.

Latin American literature--French influences.

Latin American literature.

Latin American literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Latin America.

Physical Description:

443 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lewisburg [Pa.] : Bucknell University Press ; London ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses, [2002]

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-433) and index.

ISBN:

0838754856

OCLC:

47965353