PROUSTIAN UNCERTAINTIES

This engaging reexamination of In Search of Lost Time considers how the narrator defines himself, how this compares to what we know of Proust himself, and what the significance is of these various points of commonality and divergence. We know, for example, that th e author did not hide his homosexuality, but the narrator did. Why the difference? We know that the narrator tried to marginalize hi s part-Jewish background. Does this reflect the author's position, and how does the narrator handle what he tries, but does not mana ge, to di...[Read more]