Proust's A la recherche as Intertext of Makine's Le Testament français
Proust's A la recherche as Intertext of Makine's Le Testament français
When Andreï Makine won the Prix Goncourt and Prix Médicis in 1995 with Le Testament français, reviewers compared him to Proust. This article considers A la recherche as an intertext for Makine's novel, focusing particularly on the portrayal of the narrator-protagonist's literary vocation in each of the works. Through close analysis of superficially similar episodes, the article argues that Makine's actual message is very different from Proust's and that, like Proust rewriting his own models, Makine has created an A la recherche ‘d'une autre époque’, a work that distinguishes itself from its intertext by obvious references to it.
Andreï Makine, Prix Goncourt, Prix Médicis, Le Testament français, Proust, A la recherche, intertext, literary vocation, models
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McCall, Ian
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2005
McCall, Ian
92bf8f12-27ab-4746-80f0-12c9704aa457
McCall, Ian
(2005)
Proust's A la recherche as Intertext of Makine's Le Testament français.
Modern Language Review, 100 (4), .
Abstract
When Andreï Makine won the Prix Goncourt and Prix Médicis in 1995 with Le Testament français, reviewers compared him to Proust. This article considers A la recherche as an intertext for Makine's novel, focusing particularly on the portrayal of the narrator-protagonist's literary vocation in each of the works. Through close analysis of superficially similar episodes, the article argues that Makine's actual message is very different from Proust's and that, like Proust rewriting his own models, Makine has created an A la recherche ‘d'une autre époque’, a work that distinguishes itself from its intertext by obvious references to it.
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Published date: 2005
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Andreï Makine, Prix Goncourt, Prix Médicis, Le Testament français, Proust, A la recherche, intertext, literary vocation, models
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/37845
ISSN: 0026-7937
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