Les Inconvénients Des Tirades Et Des Monologues

par sa cousine, madame du Châtelet, à Paris, eût si mal tourné. "C'est là, disait-elle, où les mauvaises femmes, comme une Coralie, une Esther, mènent les jeunes gens assez corrompus pour partager avec elles d'ignobles profits!" Enfin de belles tirades sur la charité, sur la religion! Madame du Châtelet lui avait dit que Lucien méritait mille morts pour avoir failli tuer sa sœur et sa mère.. Elle a parlé d'une vacance à la Cour royale, elle connaissait le Garde-des-sceaux. - Votre mari, 291

must have let go altogether. In the second place, I could have no breeches until I came across the crow. I was therefore obliged, much to my regret, to shake my head in the negative, intending thus to give the Angel to understand that I found it inconvenient, just at that moment, to comply with his very reasonable demand! No sooner, however, had I ceased shaking my head than-"Go to der teuffel, ten!" roared the Angel of the Odd. In pronouncing these words he drew a sharp knife across the guide-rope

Texte de Norbert Guterman, cité intégralement comme "Texte n° 3". Henri Jourdan souligne à son tour que l'oeuvre est "dense, dure, musclée". Les personnages s'y emplissent de complexité ou de mystère, l'invention verbale devient lyrique dans les "monologues sodomiques" de Charlus. Les préoccupations esthétiques tiennent une place importante. Il est néanmoins faux de vouloir ranger Proust, comme ont voulu le faire certains (Boris de Schloezer), parmi les surréalistes. C'est "musicalement sentie" que

he lapsed as if into deep thought, or even, more precisely, into some sort of oblivion, and walked on no longer noticing what was around him, and not wishing to notice. He only muttered something to himself from time to time, out of that habit of monologues he had just confessed to himself. And at the same moment he was aware that his thoughts sometimes became muddled and that he was very weak: it was the second day that he had had almost nothing to eat. He was so badly dressed that another man