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Il ‘tono’ Proust

Dagli avantesti alla ricezione
  • Edited by:
  • Anna Dolfi,

According to the advocates of Proust therapy , Proust’s writings also have the power to help us improve and understand our lives. In recent years, studies, biographies and research on his family and friends have multiplied, in addition to crime novels and comics variously inspired by La Recherche, arguably the twentieth century’s greatest novel. In the light of recently uncovered materials, this new and original book, conceived and edited by Anna Dolfi, with the participation of researchers of different generations and backgrounds, moves in search of Proustian tonality, of the unmistakable timbre of a writing that the author pursued by continually correcting his texts, and of the methods of development and diffusion to which his work has been subjected by critics and translations that have inevitably altered his voice. This work, on the centenary of Proust’s death, provides an unprecedented and polyphonic reading of the great Marcel, seeking out lost traces and forgotten pages, and investigating the causes of desire and illness. We even discover a Proust who foresaw our pandemic fears and reclusiveness, by exploring every path of memory, despite having come to us “in pieces” due to those who have not read him in full, forgetting the advice of his great interpreters, and the marks left on Italian and foreign writers, poets, and thinkers. The structure of this book allows the reader to move freely among the various proposals, recreating in a paradoxical unity that dissemination of themes, figures, emergences, and intermittences typical of Proustian poetics and work.

  • Keywords:
  • Proust,
  • genesis,
  • translation,
  • interpretation,
  • roman,
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Anna Dolfi

University of Florence, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0003-3535-1313

Anna Dolfi is a Professor Emeritus of the University of Florence, and a member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. She is one of the leading scholars of Leopardi, Leopardism, Hermeticism, and twentieth century fiction and poetry. She has conceived and edited various comparative study volumes dedicated to the “forms of subjectivity”, and to many other fascinating themes running through European literature. In 2014, published by FUP, she edited Non dimenticarsi di Proust. Declinazioni di un mito nella cultura moderna.
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Book Title

Il ‘tono’ Proust

Book Subtitle

Dagli avantesti alla ricezione

Editors

Anna Dolfi

Peer Reviewed

Number of Pages

510

Publication Year

2022

Copyright Information

© 2022 Firenze University Press

Content License

All rights reserved

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CC0 1.0

Publisher Name

Firenze University Press

DOI

10.36253/978-88-5518-643-8

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978-88-5518-642-1

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978-88-5518-643-8

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978-88-5518-644-5

Series Title

Moderna/Comparata

Series ISSN

2704-5641

Series E-ISSN

2704-565X

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