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Circumscription: Proust's The Captive And The Problem Of Other Minds, Carol De Dobay Rifelj
Circumscription: Proust's The Captive And The Problem Of Other Minds, Carol De Dobay Rifelj
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Central to Proust's Remembrance as a whole and to The Captive in particular is Marcel's attempt to discover what other people think and feel. But, as reading the work in the light of modern analytic philosophy shows, his efforts are thwarted by the deceptions of others and by his own irreconcilable views. The other is radically inaccessible, yet the object of our search; the self is a stable entity, yet multiple, changing, and a fiction constituted by language; language is communication, yet the source of error. These are the problems which confront philosophy and literature when they try to come …
The Doubles In Julien Gracq's Au Château D'Argol, Andrée Douchin-Shahin
The Doubles In Julien Gracq's Au Château D'Argol, Andrée Douchin-Shahin
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
In Julien Gracq's Au Château d'Argol, the resolution of a psychological double (as in the Doppelgänger novels) opens onto a metaphysical quest. In the process, doubling becomes so compounded that the narrative resembles a kaleidoscopic pattern of multiple reflections. Gracq's personal search into the nature of man is set against other hypotheses and formulations such as philosophical systems, religion, psychoanalysis, literature, music, etc. In the novel, man's dualism is viewed as an inescapable fact. However, even though the dogma of the Redemption is rejected, man, in spite of his "flaw," is held responsible for the acts he wills.