Annie Ernaux\u27s Passion Simple and Se Perdre: Proust\u27s \u27Amour-Maladie\u27 Revisited and Revised

Abstract

At first blush it may seem that Marcel Proust and Annie Ernaux have little in common. The author a A la recherche du temps perdu depends extensively on metaphor and serpentine sentences which culminate in a three-thousand-page work while the more contemporary writer rejects prolixity and imagery and produces dramatically briefer texts. [excerpt