... that Proust thinks he himself is “mad” for believing that art has the power to transfigure reality. This paper will explain why none of that is true. As is clear from his essays, his letters, and even his actions, Proust was not an “essayist,” in the Musil sense: not someone, that is, whose assessments were...

... such as Isabelle Gros, Lizabeth ParavisiniGebert, and Clarisse Zimra have come to the defense of both Cajou and Lacrosil,l most readers persist in characterizing Cajou's attitude as a psychological disorder. Madness is the primary explanation, perhaps the only explanation, for this character, even...

... of the writing-built on a tension between idiolectal aberrations and grammatically correct French forms-prevents us from dismissing Artaud's ostensibly untranslatable utterances as signs of his lapsing into the state of solipsistic self-enclosure that we might associate with madness, but gestures toward...

... RUFFEL (1968) is the carnivalesque representation of this "homosexual panic" that sweeps through an entire community, seized by mad suspicions arising from the fact that such and such an individual "is one" (this comes up in the book about every three pages) and by accusations of crimes committed against...

..., la fin, quand les bruits auront disparu, tirera une preuve de quelque chose de grand [ ]. Puis-comme il aura parle selon l'absolu-qui nie l'immorta- lite, l'absolu existera en dehors-lune, au dessus du temps: et il soulevera les ridea ux, en face. 17 Igitur is thus, like all of his ancestors, "mad...

...-frequently by madness; and the omnipresence of death-what Le refers to elsewhere as "Ie sentiment de la mort avant la mort, Ie sentiment de la corruption, de la decomposition."l 1. See interview with Catherine Argand, 'Linda Le,' Lire 274 (April 1999): 28-33. The Romanic Review Volume 100 Number 3 ©...

... madness, 7.14-15. Indeed, for Ficino, the madness prompted by profane love is the lowest kind of madness, because it is formed in the finite materiality of the body, 7.13, and lust is an utterly false madness, 7.15. Marsilio Ficino, Commentaire sur Ie Banquet de Platon, ed. and trad. Raymond Marcel, Paris...

... that this object has indeed existed and that it has been there where I see it. Here is where the madness is [ ] The Photograph then becomes a bizarre medium, a new form of hallucination: false on the level of perception, true on the level of time.61 The photograph is simple, banal, it has no depth, only saying...

... modernism vanguardia poetry translation studies Interpretive delirium begins only when man, ill-prepared, is taken by a sudden fear in the forest of symbols. —André Breton, Mad Love French surrealist poet André Breton’s (1896–1966) mention of the forest in the epigraph above...

..., “Sally, she really is up-stairs alonger me now, and I can’t get rid of her. She’s all in white,” he says, “wi’ white flowers in her hair, and she’s awful mad, and she’s got a shroud hanging over her arm, and she says she’ll put it on me at five in the morning.” (Dickens 261) (As my mother...

... and Mad Beliefs: Proust the Skeptic (2013), tackling the redemptive myth of the Recherche and engaging in a dense dialogue with some of the major readings of the book. This new project is a radical departure. It is not intended exclusively or even primarily for a scholarly audience. Its publisher...

... Manuel de Quadros, Heretic and "Half-mad" Who was this individual who, after a torturous and tormented life, ended up on the stake at a time when it was rarely lit anymore? How can we discover a personality such as his, presenting itself under many names, someone who took on different and even...

..., as Auge argues, "just as sense of place can lead to the dictatorship of prejudices and an overflow of meaning that produces its own forms of madness, so the freedom of non-place can lead to the madness of solitude" (122). The path towards this urban "madness of solitude" is one that Normand's wanderings...

... of a porteiia debutante whose eyes were focused permanently on the metropolis. He then recounts a serendipitous occurrence following her death, an event he describes proleptically as having precipitated his imminent fall into the abyss of madness or subjective destitution. The fatal happenstance unfolds...

... to be little more than a slightly mad and amusing person. The term was of course imported from England around 1830, along with the fad of the dandy and all things English. In France, originalite and excentricite were used as synonyms, as the Grand Larousse indicates. As late as 1873, Littre attributes...

..., she would be found innocent of murder, since according to the Napoleonic Code, t­ here is neither a crime nor a misdemeanor when the defendant was in a state of insanity at the moment of the act (qtd. in Harris, Murders and Madness 6; Berenson). But if Mme Steinheil committed murder out of self...

... of these letters was the young Ernest de la Brière, Canalis’s secretary, she gets mad, but in the end prefers the actual author of the letters and marries him. Melodrama, as Brooks would say? No doubt one that emphasizes love’s unexpected somersaults. Balzac’s discoveries include the happiness of being kind...

... of perspective, or temporary madness-that occasions his humiliation of Enide for much of the romance. He accounts for Erec's "madness" by a learned excursus through classical and Celtic folktales involving otherworld adventures. If these folktales antedate Chretien, it was nonetheless "he who wove them...

... an issue for poetry in dialect but defines every authentic poetic intention, as the case of Hölderlin shows in an exemplary way. Between 1802 and 1804—when, according to the imprudent statements of contemporaries, he began to show signs of madness—Hölderlin devoted all of his energies to translations from...

..., insensible, lacking pathos and action bears a telling resemblance to the poet. For that would be to say that the poet is most exceptional when, instead of depicting the world as it is or ought to be, she is instead engaged in sleeping, going mad, dying, etc. Another passage from Le Peintre de la vie moderne...