Les Desarrois du Moi: "A la recherche du temps perdu" de M. Proust et "Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften" de R. Musil

This study employs methodological tools of a specifically literary nature to determine how in Proust and Musil a realisation of the late 19th century 'crisis of the subject' is dovetailed with a form of 'critical fiction' where the hero is at one and the same time a commentator 'at one remove' from the events he describes. An analytic lecture croisée of two of …