Abstract: In the texts that Proust published between 1890-1893, the places, people, and situations are often distant or absent and the imagination takes hold of the concrete dimension of things. These images of absence contrast strongly with the dominant media discourse and echo the critical position of reviews in relation to the banal world of the daily (newspaper). This article attempts to show the meanderings of this dialog between the first texts of the writer and their discursive context.
