Compte rendu publié dans le dossier critique d'Acta fabula "Let's Proust again" (février 2013, Vol. 14, n° 2) : "Proust & les idéologies sociales" par Pauline Moret.

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Jacqueline Rose, Proust among the nations. From Dreyfus to the Middle East

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, coll. "Literature and Literary Criticism", 2012.

EAN 9780226725789.

256 p.

Prix : 22,50£ ; 35USD

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Known for her far-reaching examinations of psychoanalysis, literature, and politics, Jacqueline Rose has in recent years turned her attention to the Israel-Palestine conflict, one of the most enduring and apparently intractable conflicts of our time. In "Proust among the Nations", she takes the development of her thought on this crisis a stage further, revealing it as a distinctly Western problem. In a radical rereading of the Dreyfus affair through the lens of Marcel Proust in dialogue with Freud, Rose offers a fresh and nuanced account of the rise of Jewish nationalism and the subsequent creation of Israel. Following Proust's heirs, Beckett and Genet, and a host of Middle Eastern writers, artists, and filmmakers, Rose traces the shifting dynamic of memory and identity across the crucial and ongoing cultural links between Europe and Palestine. A powerful and elegant analysis of the responsibility of writing, Proust among the Nations makes the case for literature as a unique resource for understanding political struggle and gives us new ways to think creatively about the violence in the Middle East.

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Acknowledgments

A Note on Translations and Editions of Proust

Introduction 3

1 Proust among the Nations

2 Partition, Proust, and Palestine

3 The House of Memory

4 Endgame: Beckett and Genet in the Middle East

Notes

Index