![]() The reader must take on trust what the Narrator chooses to tell us about himself. ![]() But he is only a character in a story and his story contains only one event, the decision to write a book. “He often borrows the eyes and the ears of the author and seems to possess the same encyclopedic culture. “The Narrator is not Marcel Proust,” Rogers writes. ![]() ![]() As the linguist Leo Spitzer put it, “this Me seems to be situated at greater depth he has left the surface of the story in an inaccessible deep level” (I thank Carlo Ginzburg for drawing my attention to the importance of this essay).Īnother more recent attempt at definition, with which I partly disagree, will be of indirect help: Brian Rogers’s essay on “Proust’s Narrator” in the Cambridge Companion to Marcel Proust. There have been many attempts to define the “Me” used by the Narrator in Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time. ![]()
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