Proust on the Beach
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4389272 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hannah Freed-Thall (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 112-131 |
| Publication date | 2022-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Paragraph (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0264-8334 • E-ISSN: 1750-0176 |
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3366/para.2022.0388 |
| OpenAlex | W4214918570 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
What becomes visible when we consider À la recherche du temps perdu from the vantage point of the beach? This article contends that Proust's beach resort, Balbec, stages a reconfiguration of social ritual and corporeal style. Balbec is both an enormous casino and the 'springboard' for a loosely scripted, habit-disrupting social choreography. In contrast to both the aristocratic salons of Paris and the bourgeois family nucleus that characterizes Combray, Proust's beach is an improvisatory space. As such, it facilitates place-based, contingent (rather than congenital) forms of queer movement and desire
Aesthetics · Art · Bourgeoisie · Politics · Queer · Sociology · Visual arts · French Historical and Cultural Studies · French Literature and Criticism · Gender Studies · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · Philosophy
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |