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Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time, 1913–27) changed the course of modern narrative fiction. This Introduction provides an account of Proust's life, the socio-historical and cultural contexts of his work and an assessment of his early works. At its core is a volume-by-volume study of In Search of Lost Time, which attends to its remarkable superstructure, as well as to individual images and the intricacies of Proust's finely-stitched prose. The book reaches beyond stale commonplaces of madeleines and memory, alerting readers to Proust's verbal virtuosity, his preoccupations with the fleeting and the unforeseeable, with desire, jealousy and the nature of reality. Lively, informative chapters on Proust criticism and the work's afterlives in contemporary culture provide a multitude of paths to follow. The book charges readers with the energy and confidence to move beyond anecdote and hearsay and to read Proust's novel for themselves.
Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time, 1913–27) changed the course of modern narrative fiction. This Introduction provides an account of Proust's life, the socio-historical and cultural contexts of his work and an assessment of his early works. At its core is a volume-by-volume study of In Search of Lost Time, which attends to its remarkable superstructure, as well as to individual images and the intricacies of Proust's finely-stitched prose. The book reaches beyond stale commonplaces of madeleines and memory, alerting readers to Proust's verbal virtuosity, his preoccupations with the fleeting and the unforeseeable, with desire, jealousy and the nature of reality. Lively, informative chapters on Proust criticism and the work's afterlives in contemporary culture provide a multitude of paths to follow. The book charges readers with the energy and confidence to move beyond anecdote and hearsay and to read Proust's novel for themselves.
This article examines French choreographer Roland Petit's ballet adaptation of A la recherche du temps perdu as an example of the little-researched interartistic relations between literature and dance. Drawing on translation theory and recent dance scholarship, it is argued that Petit's 'lecture dancée' offers a bold critical reading of the source text which challenges conservative public perceptions of Proust through its foregrounding of the darker side of human passions in the text and its focus on homosexuality as a major theme. By lifting it out of its traditional medium, the ballet brings to the fore aspects of the novel that tend to be overlooked by criticism: Proust's interest in the body in motion, the gestural and choreographic qualities of his writing, the marked theatricality of some of the Recherche's most prominent scenes. Not bound by the strictures of faithfulness, Petit signs a performance which extracts Proustian 'essences' in the interstices between text and performance. Although they constitute the staple diet of opera repertoires all over the world, ballet adaptations of literary texts rarely are the subject of criticism. 1 What exactly happens when literature, a verbal medium par excellence, is translated into the non-verbal medium of dance? How can the multi-layered world of fiction be recreated through movement, choreography, music and gesture? How is print, destined for individual,
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