FREN699Y

This course is an introduction to Proust's major work, A la recherche dutemps perdu. Several questions will guide us along the semester: How Proust conceived the art of the novel? What did writing mean to him? What has been his contribution to the art of fiction? How did he conceive the relationship between the writer and the reader? Reading hiswork, which features should be highlighted to help understand what a novel character is, how story telling could be defined, what a description and its function are, etc.? Finally, can Proust help each ofus, with our own respective specific approach, to define our own relationship to his work in particular, and to the art of the novel and to literature in general? Taught in French.