Figures de la servante: Françoise, symbole proustien de la culture française
Figures de la servante: Françoise, symbole proustien de la culture française

Summary/Abstract: In Marcel Proust’s novel, « À la recherche du temps perdu », Françoise, the servant, is a prominent character, although not as such explicitly introduced by the narrator. Her appearance evokes old French traditions at all times, relying on or highlighting basic values of the French culture. As a character, Françoise is made up of what she is saying as reported by the narrator pretending to remember past days, actions, words, etc., but also of the observations he could make when spending some time next to her. Her name reminds of France and she may be thought of as a symbolic character recalling to the present old traditions, communication rituals, canonical behaviours, a whole axiological system. This study aims at presenting some particularities of the text, by pointing to lexico-semantic, textual, dialogical, argumentative, and stylistic issues.

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