Abstract
This article considers interrogative constructions in A la recherche du temps perdu, which it links first with the inquisitiveness that jealousy imparts to its sufferers, and more generally, with the problem of the ‘other’ in Proust. It first establishes a distinction between direct and indirect interrogatives according to the type of answers they elicit. Indirect interrogatives go together with other linguistic deviations that the novel compiles, and are signposted by the narrator's comments. The article then examines one example of direct interrogative — ‘Quoi?’ — which, in being paired recurrently with the phrase ‘autre chose’, leads on to the problem of ‘otherness’ in Proust. One of the concerns of the article is whether anything in the Proustian text allows us unambiguously to identify ‘otherness’.
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