Some have wondered, and this volume continues to wonder, about the relationship that the virtual book that the narrator begins to write at the end of Le Temps retrouvé has with the real book À la recherche du temps perdu. Doesn’t this book, an allegory of itself, have a precedent in the Mallarmean Livre? This is the question that this article attempts to answer.
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques