Innutrition littéraire et construction d’un fait de style La série adjectivale dans À la recherche du temps perdu

The adjectival series is a multiform fait de style that is well known to readers of Proust. The corpus constituted by the Recherche shows that Marcel Proust takes up again, cites, and appropriates syntagms employed by John Ruskin, Henri de Régnier, Charles Baudelaire, and Victor Hugo. What do the phenomena of reuse and détournement teach us about the parentage and singularity of this fait de style? How has Proust’s literary culture consciously and unconsciously influenced the meaning and form of the adjectival series?