Love, jealousy and dilletantism: the rise of character Charles Swann in Proust's notebooks

• Grant number: 13/07759-2
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: October 01, 2013
• End date: September 30, 2014
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Literature - Modern Foreign Literatures
• Principal Investigator: Guilherme Ignácio da Silva
• Grantee: Wagner Tavares da Silva
• Host Institution: Escola de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (EFLCH). Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP). Campus Guarulhos. Guarulhos , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 11/08942-0 - Brépols French-Brazilian and other manuscripts, AP.TEM

Abstract

This research allies the study of the published text In "Search of Lost Time", by Marcel Proust, to the analysis of its manuscript corpus. The focus of this analysis, both published text and scrapbook, is the study of Charles Swann's character: the narrator's alter ego, he embodies questions which will be experienced again by the Proustian hero through the oeuvre ( such as the experience of love and jealousy, the interest for art, dilettantism’s risk.) Integrative part of the theme project FAPESP/Brépols, the research will begin from the analysis of Swann's role on the published text, aiming, further, to follow the progressive constitution of this character on Marcel Proust's scraps. (AU)