Buch, Englisch, 246 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 352 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-925689-1
Verlag: OUP Oxford
English is the 'second language' of A la recherche du temps perdu. Although much has been written about Proust's debt to English literature, especially Ruskin, Daniel Karlin is the first critic to focus on his knowledge of the language itself - on vocabulary, idiom, and etymology. He uncovers an 'English world' in Proust's work, a world whose social comedy and artistic values reveal surprising connections to some of the novel's central preoccupations with sexuality and art. Anglomanie- the fashion for all things English - has been as powerful a presence in French culture as hostility to perfide Albion; Proust was both subject to its influence, and a brilliant critic of its excesses. French resistance to imported English words remains fierce to this day; but Proust's attitude to this most contentious aspect of Anglo-French relations was marked by his rejection of concepts of national and racial 'purity', and his profound understanding of the necessary 'impurity' of artistic creation.
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- Chapter 1: Proust's English World
- i: Anglomanie
- ii: For what fault have you most toleration?
- iii: 'Je ne prétends pas savoir l'anglais.'
- iv: 'I do not speak french'
- v: Le livre des snobs
- Chapter 2: Swann and Odette
- i: Enter Swann(s)
- ii: 'La dame en rose'
- iii: Odette's smarts
- iv: Odette orchidophile, Odette orchidée
- v: Odette en fleurs
- vi: Swann's way with words
- vii: 'C'est bien ce qu'on appelle un gentleman?'
- viii: L'israélite du Jockey
- ix: 'D'origine anglaise'
- Chapter 3: Choses Normandes
- i: Balbec as found
- ii: Le Grand-Hôtel de Balbec-Cabourg
- iii: Le sport
- iv: The painter of modern life
- Chapter 4: Les Mots retrouvés
- i: Un englische; un English
- ii: Du pur vocabulaire
- iii: Qu'est-ce que l'Anglais?
- iv: Etymology and deformation
- v: Un arriviste digne de louange
- Appendix: The location of English words and phrases in À la recherche du temps perdu
