The narrator’s musings on names in À la recherche du temps perdu are famous. Less well known is Régnier’s care in creating a singular, rich, and prolific onomastics in his work. The names reveal their power of suggestion and Régnier often makes this explicit in his Cahiers. We offer a broad overview of Régnier’s names, comparing them with those in Proust.
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques