French Literature Reviews - 2026
Y. Cerqueira Dos Anjos, Marcel Proust et la presse de la Belle Époque
Other Literary Studies
Yuri Cerqueira dos Anjos, Marcel Proust et la presse de la Belle Époque
Paris: Honoré Champion, "Recherches proustiennes" series, 2018
EAN 9782745349125.
344 pages
55 EUR
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Publisher's overview:
Far from being mere preliminary exercises for his novel, Marcel Proust's journalistic writings are texts deeply rooted in the various periodicals where they were originally published. Combining discourse analysis, media format analysis, and intertextual study, this book explores the ongoing dialogue between Proust's contributions to the press and the surrounding media landscape. To this end, Yuri Cerqueira dos Anjos builds his argument around three main pillars: media ethos, media poetics, and the media imaginary.
Yuri Cerqueira dos Anjos is a professor of French literature at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (Brazil). He is an associate researcher with the Proust Team at ITEM (CNRS) and the Transfopress project (CNPq-Brazil). His doctoral dissertation was awarded the prize for best thesis at the University of São Paulo in 2016.
The study of literary figures in relation to the press is a significant area of research within modern French studies, as the rise of periodicals during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries fundamentally altered the conditions of literary production. By examining how authors engaged with the specific constraints and expectations of newspapers, scholars can better understand the evolution of public discourse and the development of individual writing styles. This work situates Marcel Proust et la presse de la Belle Époque within the broader media environment of the period, focusing on the interplay between his texts and their original publication contexts.
The analysis centers on the concepts of media ethos, media poetics, and the media imaginary to investigate the dialogue between Proust’s contributions and the press of the period. The book examines these writings as texts rooted in the various periodicals where they were originally published, rather than as mere preliminary exercises for his novel. Readers interested in the intersection of literary history and media studies may find this examination of the relationship between Proust’s journalism and the surrounding media landscape relevant to their understanding of his work.