Abstract: From the jumping-off point of a letter written by Proust to Lucien Daudet at the end of 1908, which signals a budding fascination for the theme of laundresses, this investigation seeks to evaluate the extent to which this theme with strong erotic potential could have contributed to the birth of the novel, despite the fact that, paradoxically, it appears almost absent in it, except in the late and tragic developments of Albertine’s lesbian romances. A question of hell that, since Jean Santeuil, has pursued the aquatic imaginary.
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques
EAN:9782406157908
ISBN:978-2-406-15790-8
ISSN: 2430-8218
DOI: 10.48611/isbn.978-2-406-15790-8.p.0081
Publisher: Classiques Garnier
Online publication: 10-11-2023
Periodicity: Biannual
Language: French
Keyword: novelistic genesis, Sodome et Gomorrhe IV, Contre Sainte-Beuve, Jean Santeuil, laundresses, bathers, bathhouses, eroticism, lesbianism, Goncourt (Edmond de)