By Herbert E. Craig
The multi-volume novel of Marcel Proust, A l. a. recherche du temps perdu (1913-27), started to obtain awareness in Spanish the US in 1920, and, as Herbert Craig meticulously indicates, this French connection may proceed through the 20th century. He strains it either throughout the literary feedback dedicated to Proust within the New international and during the effect of the Recherche upon the Spanish American novel, which in accordance Alejo Carpentier was once easily progressive. Craig explains how the Recherche affected a number of Spanish American novels and brief tales in assorted methods, and the way Proust's topics and matters (high society, love, disorder and cognizance, etc.) inspired and encouraged quite a few writers, quite these of a contemporary persuasion, equivalent to Manuel Mujica Láinez, Yolanda Oreamuno, and Alejo Carpentier.
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In the same way that the narrator of Le temps retrouvé attributed a great importance to the first books that he had read during childhood (1954, 3:885), so did Ocampo, who had first learned to read in French.
He saw in Proust a new Orpheus, who had descended to the realms of oblivion in search of his lost Euridice. One might notice in the list of Mexican writers the absence of Xavier Villaurrutia, who also was fascinated by Proust. But, he made his own contribution one year later when he translated for Contemporáneos a fine essay by Ramon Fernandez, a French critic of Mexican origin who had known Proust personally. In chapter 2, I will discuss narrative texts by both Torres Bodet and Villaurrutia because of their connection with the Recherche.
As Marcel never had the opportunity to review the end of his manuscript and to prepare the definitive text, this task was left to his brother, Robert, and other persons. These volumes were pieced together from Marcel's notebooks, and the decisions that were made have been disputed until nearly the present. 1 The fame of Proust's work reached a high point after the publication of the final volume, where the author presented explicitly his ideas on time and memory and brought to its culmination the story of the protagonist's literary vocation.