Jean Santeuil


What follows is a list of elements in Jean Santeuil that may be of particular interest to those who have read A la recherche du temps perdu. It makes no claim to exhaustiveness. Page references are to the Gallimard Quarto edition (Paris, 2001). Please contact me if you find mistakes.

1. Incidents

Incidents reused in the Recherche, 1-10
Incidents reused in the Recherche, 11-20
Incidents reused in the Recherche, 21-30
Incidents reused in the Recherche, 31-40
Incidents reused in the Recherche, 41-49
2. Worlds

2.1 Places
2.2 Society
2.3 Friendship
2.4 Love
2.4.1 Marie Kossichef [proto-Gilberte]
2.4.2 Mme S [proto-Albertine]
2.4.3 Others
2.4.4 Laws of love
2.5 The Self
2.5.1 Synchronic division
2.5.2 Diachronic division
2.5.3 True Self

2.5.4 Involuntary memory, route to true self
2.5.4.1 Examples
2.5.4.2 Theory

2.5.5 Impressions, route to true self
2.5.5.1 Examples
2.5.5.1 Theory
2.6 Art
2.6.1 Artists
2.6.2 Art as revelation of perspective
2.6.3 Contre Sainte-Beuve
2.6.4 Raw Material
2.6.5 Aesthetic ethics

3. Illusion
3.1 Inevitable
3.2 Desirable
4. Differences from the Recherche
4.1 Jean does not become a writer
4.2 Other differences
5. Style