Proust’s and Woolf’s Dialogue Regarding the Language

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Chapter: chapter ou part
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Publications
Title
Proust’s and Woolf’s Dialogue Regarding the Language
Title of the book
Comparing Literatures: Aspects, Method, and Orientation: Proceedings of the 8th Congress of the European Society of Comparative Literature (ESCL-SELC) (Paperback)
Author(s)
Barbakadze Tamar, McIntosh-Varjabédian Fiona, Jung Sandro, Boulanger Alison
Publisher
ibidem-Verlag
Publication state
Published
Issued date
2022
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Pages
75-88
Edition
1st edition
Language
english
Abstract
The book chapter compares Virginia Woolf's (1882-1940) and Marcel Proust's (1871-1922) writing back to the propagandist uses of language. If Woolf’s essays Three Guineas and A Room of One’s Own react against the corruption of language in the hands of “fathers” and “brothers”, Time Passes, an intermediary part of her novel To the Lighthouse captures its logical continuation: it blames the abuse of a power of language for the production of anarchy and decay in the world. Likewise, Proust, few years before Woolf, pointed at the catastrophic effects of misuse of language in the context of the propaganda. Le Temps Retrouvé considers a language of mass-media to enhance the aggression and hatred between the people of different nationalities. Based on these texts, I show that Marcel Proust and Virginia Woolf revolt against a language that is employed in political discourses, on the one hand and on the other hand, I interpret their fiction as the reaction to the Rationalism, to logical speech.
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