« Douces choses férocement lointaines » : deux lectures de Proust dans les camps soviétiques
How is it possible to explain that Marcel Proust’s work raised the interest of a Polish painter and Russian writer, as they were struggling for life in soviet camps ? To answer this question, one should compare Joseph Czapski’s and Varlam Shalamov’s experiences : although these two authors didn’t kn...
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description | How is it possible to explain that Marcel Proust’s work raised the interest of a Polish painter and Russian writer, as they were struggling for life in soviet camps ? To answer this question, one should compare Joseph Czapski’s and Varlam Shalamov’s experiences : although these two authors didn’t know each other, Proust’s book represented for both of them, to some extent, a tool of resistance against the Soviet power, which was aiming their psychological and moral annihilation. Reading Proust against degradation (Czapski) and Kolyma Tales (Shalamov), several points of comparison appear : a same refusal of “committed literature”, a paradoxical connection between the camp’s environment and the Proustian world, a certain way of reading without book and, eventually, an exploration of consciousness in front of death. |
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title | « Douces choses férocement lointaines » : deux lectures de Proust dans les camps soviétiques |
title_full | « Douces choses férocement lointaines » : deux lectures de Proust dans les camps soviétiques |
title_fullStr | « Douces choses férocement lointaines » : deux lectures de Proust dans les camps soviétiques |
title_full_unstemmed | « Douces choses férocement lointaines » : deux lectures de Proust dans les camps soviétiques |
title_short | « Douces choses férocement lointaines » : deux lectures de Proust dans les camps soviétiques |
title_sort | douces choses ferocement lointaines deux lectures de proust dans les camps sovietiques |
topic | resistance USSR Proust camps |
url | https://journals.openedition.org/amnis/822 |
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