Marcel Proust, Leopoldo Marechal, or the contradictions of modernity
The paradigmatic novels of literary modernism À la recherche du temps perdu (1913-1927) by Marcel Proust and Adán Buenosayres (1948) by Leopoldo Marechal show a fundamental contradiction on which they are based: the simultaneous traditionalism of their theory and aesthetic search – and the modernity...
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Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades
2021
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| Sumario: | The paradigmatic novels of literary modernism À la recherche du temps perdu (1913-1927) by Marcel Proust and Adán Buenosayres (1948) by Leopoldo Marechal show a fundamental contradiction on which they are based: the simultaneous traditionalism of their theory and aesthetic search – and the modernity of their writing. They defend a poetics that their own writing surpasses, and they seek a return to a classic work as a return to a totality that reality no longer offers. With Antoine Compagnon, they can be considered as anti-modern, ultra-modern, or modern 'despite themselves'.
In the comparative analysis of the two novels I will offer in the following pages, I focus on the theory of metaphor explicitly discussed and practically distorted in the texts: by the metonymic technique in the case of Proust, and by allegory in that of Marechal. I conclude the analysis with a sketched comparison of the overtures of La Recherche and Adán Buenosayres, in order to exemplify the positions previously discussed theoretically. |
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