Irish Proust

Max McGuinness is a Research Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow in French at Trinity College Dublin.Michael Cronin is 1776 Professor of French at Trinity College Dublin.

It is not possible to do full justice to this pioneering collection of essays on Proust’s influence on contemporary Irish writers from the 1920s to the beginning of the twenty-first century, and to a most penetrating exploration of the Irish dimension of Proust’s own writings. The chapters that examine the penetration of Proust’s work in Ireland and the echoes of Irish history and culture in Proust’s novels represent a major contribution towards a better understanding of the close and often intriguing literary relationship between France and Ireland.

• Notes on contributors Acknowledgements Abbreviations Foreword: The Man Who Built Ireland’s Paris Embassy: Henri, Marquis de Breteuil—Monarchist, Diarist, and Inspiration for Marcel Proust’s ‘Hannibal de Bréauté’Niall Burgess (Ambassador of Ireland to France and Monaco)Introduction Max McGuinness (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)and Michael Cronin (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)Part 1: Irish Themes in Proust1. In Search of a Gaelic Proust Max McGuinness (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)2. Proust and Wilde Elisabeth Ladenson (Columbia University, USA)3. Revivalist Proust Barry McCrea (University of Notre Dame, USA)4. The Metempsychotic Room: Proust, His Siblings, and His Avatars Patrick O’Donovan (University College Cork, Ireland)Part 2: Proust in Ireland5. Amphibian Proust: Aesthetic Renewal and the Trinity College Dublin French Department in Post-Independence IrelandMichael Cronin (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)6. Mary Devenport O’Neill’s Poetic Reception of Marcel Proust Gráinne Condon (Independent scholar)7. Proust Revisited: The Legacy of Marcel Proust in Brendan Behan’s Bridewell Deirdre McMahon (Independent scholar)8. Proust, McGahern, and Memoir: the Déjà Lu Richard Robinson (Swansea University, Wales)Part 3: Irish Proustians in Exile9. Proust, Beckett, and the ‘Abominable Edition of the Nouvelle Revue Française’ Nathalie Mauriac Dyer (CNRS-École normale supérieure, France)Translated from the French by Max McGuinness (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)10. Bowen after Proust Isabelle Serça (Université de Toulouse, France)Translated from the French by Michael Cronin (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) and Max McGuinness (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)11. ‘A Very Dangerous Influence’: Elizabeth Bowen and Marcel Proust Heather Ingman (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)