Research Catalog

Title

The theater in the fiction of Marcel Proust / by John Gaywood Linn.

Author

Linn, John Gaywood, 1917-

Publication

• [Columbus] : Ohio State University Press, [1966]
• ©1966

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Details

Description

274 pages; 22 cm

Summary

That Marcel Proust and the theater of his time were not strangers to one another is evident to even the most casual reader of A la recherche du temps perdu. From Mr. Linn's thoroughgoing investigation, however, it is clear that the significance of this remarkable abundance of theatrical and dramatic references, both in Proust's great novel and his other fiction, is far greater than has heretofore been suspected. For Mr. Linn uncovers a very definite pattern and a rigid control in Proust's deployment of theatrical metaphor and allusion, in his use of quotations from the drama, and in the parallels he draws between the actions of plays, events in real life, and the lives of his characters.

Subject

• Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922 > Criticism and interpretation
• Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922
• À la recherche du temps perdu (Proust, Marcel)
• Theater in literature

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-261) and index.

Contents

Proust and the theater of his time -- Drama and theater allusions in A la recherche du temps perdu -- Proust's manipulation of chronology -- Quotations from drama in A la recherche du temps perdu -- Theater in the action of A la recherche du temps perdu ; Berma ; Rachel ; Berma and Rachel ; Others -- The pattern of theater metaphors in A la recherche du temps perdu.

LCCN

65024374

OCLC

• ocm00343780
• 343780
• SCSB-9422001

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library