Archéologies de soi et marges de la modernité. L’écriture de l’enfance dans « Du côté de chez Swann » et « Mort à crédit »
From the thematically and chronologically close works that are "Du côté de chez Swann" and "Mort à crédit", this article tries to think together the autobiographical dimension of the coming-­‐ of-­‐age story with the discovery of the modern world that is orchestrated and put to crisis within those novels. The starting point of this reflection is to be found in the literary theories of the philosophical archeology of Foucault, for whom literature is a redistribution of the signs of the society and also a margin in which the order of history comes to fail and to be redistributed. In Proust’s as in Celine’s works, childhood’s naivety is reloaded with a primitively charged critique that allows a reflexive resumption of existence and writing.
Proust, Marcel