Even if Proust’s Recherche is evoked through the use of implicit quotations and of pastiche in Pascal Quignard's novel entitled Le Salon du Wurtemberg, it is not, however, in line with Proust's style and even goes against it : the narrator's search appears to be an impossible quest fo...

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Main Author: Clément Froehlicher
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Radboud University Press in cooperation with Open Journals 2013-12-01
Series:Relief: Revue Électronique de Littérature Francaise
Online Access:http://www.revue-relief.org/articles/10.18352/relief.880/
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spelling doaj-f08ae18fcab143e7b24dd6102c651d712021-10-02T04:53:48ZengRadboud University Press in cooperation with Open JournalsRelief: Revue Électronique de Littérature Francaise1873-50452013-12-017212813810.18352/relief.880623Clément FroehlicherEven if Proust’s Recherche is evoked through the use of implicit quotations and of pastiche in Pascal Quignard's novel entitled Le Salon du Wurtemberg, it is not, however, in line with Proust's style and even goes against it : the narrator's search appears to be an impossible quest for the origin and not the revelation of the past; vocational writing is hence opposed to writing as a “symptom” (Quignard). This paradoxal intertextuality, which we can interpret as being a particular possibility to refer to Proust in contemporaneity, allows us, in turn, to shed light upon Quignard's poetics.http://www.revue-relief.org/articles/10.18352/relief.880/
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description Even if Proust’s Recherche is evoked through the use of implicit quotations and of pastiche in Pascal Quignard's novel entitled Le Salon du Wurtemberg, it is not, however, in line with Proust's style and even goes against it : the narrator's search appears to be an impossible quest for the origin and not the revelation of the past; vocational writing is hence opposed to writing as a “symptom” (Quignard). This paradoxal intertextuality, which we can interpret as being a particular possibility to refer to Proust in contemporaneity, allows us, in turn, to shed light upon Quignard's poetics.
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