L'amour de la patrie dans Le temps retrouvé de Marcel Proust - article ; n°1 ; vol.20, pg 35-48

Vingtième Siècle. Revue d'histoire - Année 1988 - Volume 20 - Numéro 1 - Pages 35-48
Love of the fatherland in Marcel Proust's « Le temps retrouvé », Annick Cochet.
Proust denied any documentary value to art and the characters of Le temps retrouvé have only a partial and relative view of the First World War. The analysis of the novel is nevertheless a mine of observations which the historian can use profitably : on Parisian life in the rear, on the manipulations of public opinion, on naive or carefully cultivated love, on the Fatherland. Heroes, egoists, or simple good people , the characters of Le temps retrouvé reveal a lot about the minds of French people at war and about the emergence of a system of control of social representations which were to have so many successors throughout the history of the 20th century.
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Source : Persée ; Ministère de la jeunesse, de l’éducation nationale et de la recherche, Direction de l’enseignement supérieur, Sous-direction des bibliothèques et de la documentation.