PROUST ET FLAUBERT: DES FICTIONS DE SOI ET DES MYTHES DE L'AUTRE Öffentlichkeit
Shehata, Gehane Youssef (2012)
Abstract
This study aims to examine the proximity between the works of
Proust and
Flaubert. While there would be many different ways to approach such
a question, the
present analysis will focus on notions of self and otherness,
prominent in the works of both
authors.
Flaubert's view of subjectivity - later identified by critics as
bovarysme, or the power
of illusion in the construction of the self - clearly distinguishes
his world, whereas Proust
stands as the thinker of modern subjectivity, the first author to
think and include the effect
of time in the conception of the subject. The first chapter shows
that the view of each
author entails not only a distinct quality of perception of the
self, but also a world where
the position and the gaze of the other differ greatly. The second
chapter furthermore
considers the standpoint of each author towards otherness through
his depiction of the
human face. While the two authors do indeed encounter the human
face in almost opposite
ways, they both eventually testify to a problematic nature of the
relation to the other, a
relation mainly characterized by assimilation to the self or
erasure.
Notions of otherness and self inevitably lead our thought to the
question of writing
and reading, always situated between a self and others. The writing
styles of Flaubert and
Proust thus become the ultimate concern of our study; the
characteristics of each style, the
way in which it encounters us, and the Other that writes
itself through each text become the
focus of the last chapter.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Introduction
1
Chapitre 1: Images de soi, soi comme image
7
Chapitre 2: Du visage
63
Chapitre 3: Ecrire l'Autre
133
Conclusion
181
Bibliographie
185
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