A Significant Source for the Madeleine and Other Major Episodes in Combray: Proust's Intertextual Use of Pierre Loti's My Brother Yves

The most famous passage in Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time , and one of the most famous passages in Western literature, is the moment when the narrator sips tea while eating a shell-shaped pastry called a madeleine and suddenly recalls very vividly an apparently long-forgotten scene from his...

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Main Author: Richard M. Berrong
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: New Prairie Press 2014-01-01
Series:Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
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Online Access:http://newprairiepress.org/sttcl/vol38/iss1/3