MÉMOIRE ET OUBLI DE L’INTERTEXTE : le cas Charlus

Abstract

Intertextuality has become for the last twenty years a theoretical notion which lost its subversive potentiality to be reduced to a simple relation between different texts that share a series of words or themes. I would like to propose a new reflection about it and analyse how it appears and works, thanks to the study of the baron de Charlus in À la recherche du temps perdu. Indeed, I’d like to emphasize three different levels which are, in the same time, extremely complementary, to describe this theoretical phenomena, which includes both the memory of a reader and collective memory.