Abstract
What is the significance of comedy in A la recherche du temps perdu? How do moments of levity, humorous interlude, and comic relief function in a novel whose overall design is the construct of a highly serious authorial purpose? There is no lack of critical literature on the subject Proust and Comedy or Proust and Humor, but most interpreters have subordinated laughter to the high seriousness of Proust's theories on aesthetics and memory and have explicated humorous passages in terms of these theories, as if comedy in its diversified manifestations could be reduced to the role of exem-
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