Etude genetique d'un episode d'A la recherche du temps perdu: la mort de la grand-mere.

Abstract

This thesis sets out to study one ".................." episodes in Marcel Proust's monumental work, A la recherche du temps perdu. Since its conception in the cahier 29 of 1909, "la mort de la grand-mere" ("the death of the grandmother") constituted one of the major articulations in the novel, and was destined for the last volume, LeTemps retrouve. In the succeeding versions of the novel, the episode was shifted to Le Cote de Guermantes and given functions which Proust modified in the light of changes made to the volume and to the novel as a whole. the novel had, by 1918, grown from three to five volumes and, at the time of its publication in 1920, Le Cote de Guermantes, as well as the episode in question, was divided into two as a result of editorial pressure on the author. (Abbreviation abstract)