The book that was promised is the one that the reader has just read: a novel about actors, in the sense Johann Wolfgang von Goethe intended in Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship. However, don’t Marcel Proust’s words, left unfinished at the end of Le Temps retrouvé, portend a different book: “Profonde Albertine que je voyais dormir et qui était morte”? Might Proust have also added a different narrative, a portrait of a filmmaker?
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques