Abstract EN:

What to write having read Proust’s narrative, A la recherche du temps perdu ? The proustian model is a hidden model for Genet who rarely evoked his reading of Proust. In his work, sometimes he does a pastiche of his predecessor, sometimes he perverts it. Nevertheless behind the blatant rewritings of A la recherche du temps perdu, he tries maybe to create a new version of it, a work which would contain all the others. At first, the beginning writer walks in the tracks of Proust, taking back motives, composition, mixture of the arts and the questioning of the literary genders, to achieve a coherent group of five volumes. But he feels dissatisfied and decides to give up his attempts to dedicate himself exclusively to the theater first of all, to the political action then. The model seems definitively rejected, the writing abandoned. Finally, appears in a posthumous way an unexpected work, Un captif amoureux, where Genet seems to have found the synthesis of his diverse experiments and where re-appears the shadow of the proustian model.