Traces of Proust in Michel Tremblay

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14210%2F24%3A00139761" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14210/24:00139761 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.14712/23366680.2024.2.8" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.14712/23366680.2024.2.8</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.14712/23366680.2024.2.8" target="_blank" >10.14712/23366680.2024.2.8</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Traces of Proust in Michel Tremblay

Original language description

At first glance, Marcel Proust’s aristocratic spirit and ambiance are entirely dissimilar to the plebeian milieu of the Quebec playwright and prose writer Michel Tremblay, whose poetics involve raising the joual slang of the Montreal suburbs to the tones of ancient Greek tragedy, medieval religious drama or/and the social novel. Proust is also largely absent from the cultural references and allusions that sprinkle Tremblay’s works, which include Balzac, Zola, Camus, Vian, Sartre and Genet. Yet Marcel Proust seems to underlie Tremblay’s first major novelistic project — the hexalogy Chronique du Plateau Mont-Royal (1978–1998), which in the form of a family chronicle traces the birth of the future author. In this rewriting of Marcel Proust, albeit in the third person, the future writer in the making — the storyteller of these novels, designated as a ‘little boy’ or ‘the child of the fat woman’ — appears merely in the background, as a convergence of the other characters, who initiate and represent the fundamentals of Michel Tremblay’s art. My analysis of this specific configuration of characters in the hexalogy will be completed by one of the novels in the Traversées cycle, La Traversée du continent (2007), the first volume of the Diaspora des Desrosiers, in which the journey of the future author’s mother Nana represents a discovery and an apprenticeship in art. Implicit references to La Recherche du temps perdu can be delineated throughout the text. A characterization of Tremblayan poetics will complete the presentation of the narrative strategy.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60206 - Specific literatures

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA20-14919S" target="_blank" >GA20-14919S: Centre and Periphery: Changes in the Postcolonial Situation of Romance-language Literatures in the Americas, Africa and Europe</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Slovo a Smysl

ISSN

1214-7915

e-ISSN

2336-6680

Volume of the periodical

(21) 45

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

169-181

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85216480340