Proust invisible? Quelques remarques autour de "Proust, Prix Goncourt. Une émeute littéraire" de Thierry Laget
"Proust invisible? Some remarks on Thierry Laget’s" Proust, Prix Goncourt. Une émeute littéraire

Author(s): Katarzyna Thiel-Jańczuk
Subject(s): Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Studies of Literature, French Literature, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Proust; visibility; effect of presence; media; biography; autofiction
Summary/Abstract: The paper discusses the question of the mediatic visibility of Marcel Proust, which is inspired by the Thierry Laget’s biographical essay devoted to controversies around The Prix Goncourt for "In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower" in December 1919. In opposition to the myth of Proust’s mediatic invisibility, created by the French Nouvelle Critique and its interpretation of Proust’s Contre Sainte-Beuve, the author shows the nature and importance of the mediatic image of this writer for his understanding of the autofictional narrative and the biographical discourse concerning Proust.

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