‘An eye more penetrating than other men's’: Finding the Recherche's Narrator in a World of Experts

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PARAGRAPH Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI:10.3366/para.2022.0387
Ben Beitler
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This essay presents the Recherche's narrator as an expert in a world of experts. Considering previous scholarship on the sociological knowledge present in Proust's novel, I imagine the pursuit of this knowledge as characterizing its narrator, distinguishing him from the other specialists who populate the pages of his récit. Drawing on the work of Gil Eyal, I read this récit as displaying a marked attention to the ‘networks of expertise’ in which these other experts make their knowledge effective. The récit's language, meanwhile, provides information on the network of expertise in which the narrator himself must operate to assume the social position of expert. Ultimately, I argue that thinking about the narrator and his writing in terms of expertise allows us to ironize the narrator's knowledge about the social world. From this ironic distance, the Recherche becomes not a vehicle of such knowledge but an experience of it.
“一只比其他男人更有穿透力的眼睛”:在专家的世界里寻找雷切尔的叙述者
这篇文章将雷切尔切的叙述者描述为一个专家世界中的专家。考虑到之前对普鲁斯特小说中社会学知识的研究,我认为对这一知识的追求是其叙述者的特征,将他与其他专家区分开来。根据Gil Eyal的工作,我读到这篇文章时,明显注意到这些其他专家使他们的知识有效的“专业知识网络”。与此同时,叙述者的语言提供了关于专业知识网络的信息,叙述者自己必须在专业知识网络中发挥作用,才能承担起专家的社会地位。最终,我认为,从专业知识的角度思考叙述者和他的写作,可以让我们讽刺叙述者对社会世界的了解。从这个具有讽刺意味的距离来看,Recherche并不是这种知识的载体,而是一种知识的体验。
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期刊介绍: Founded in 1983, Paragraph is a leading journal in modern critical theory. It publishes essays and review articles in English which explore critical theory in general and its application to literature, other arts and society. Regular special issues by guest editors highlight important themes and figures in modern critical theory.
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