The promise of happiness in Proust and Miró

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  • Matei Chihaia Bergische Universität Wuppertal

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_tropelias/tropelias.2018302906

Keywords:

Marcel Proust, Gabriel Miró, Stendhal, Paul-Jean Toulet, promise, happiness

Abstract

The works of Marcel Proust and Gabriel Miro have often been compared. The two contemporary authors share aesthetic ideals that are grounded in their common readings of Nineteenth-Century classics. Among those, Stendhal deserves particular attention. His statement about beauty being a «promise of happiness» that changes with the type of happiness expected in different times and places, appears in several parts of À la recherche du temps perdu and El obispo leproso. The narrative use of the aphorism on aesthetics adds new contexts to it: while Proust interprets it in the light of impressionism and under the shadow of moralist anthropology, Miró contrasts the «promise of happiness» with the Christian promise of salvation.

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Matei Chihaia, Bergische Universität Wuppertal

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Departamento de Romanística

Published

2018-07-09

How to Cite

Chihaia, M. (2018). The promise of happiness in Proust and Miró. Tropelías: Review of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature, (30), 61–72. https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_tropelias/tropelias.2018302906

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