De l’affaire Dreyfus à l’affaire Albertine. Sociopoétique du complot dans À la recherche du temps perdu
French Belle Époque is characterized by a spy mania. During this time, fights against traitors are multiplying. In this article, we would like to show how this social discourse gets into Proust’s novel À la recherche du temps perdu and fuels at the same time an imagination and a poetics of the consp...
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| Language: | fra |
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Université Clermont Auvergne
2024-01-01
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| Series: | Sociopoétiques |
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| Online Access: | https://polen.uca.fr/sociopoetiques/index.php?id=2143 |
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| Summary: | French Belle Époque is characterized by a spy mania. During this time, fights against traitors are multiplying. In this article, we would like to show how this social discourse gets into Proust’s novel À la recherche du temps perdu and fuels at the same time an imagination and a poetics of the conspiracy. First, this imagination belongs to armchair conspiracists. Between Dreyfus affair and Eulenburg affair they have indeed a lot to do. This imagination belongs then to the narrator, who is convinced that he is at the heart of a conspiracy, which turns the novel into a paranoid detective story. But he is perhaps the victim of a trick played on him by his imagination. Affected in turn by suspicion, the reader must also become a detective, in search of the traces that form the frame of the conspiracy narrative. More generally, the analysis of the Proustian imagination of conspiracy brings to light a number of interactions concerning a society that also seems to have entered the age of suspicion, fragmented into “little clans” that operate on the model of secret societies. |
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| ISSN: | 2497-3610 |