Abstract
One of the main claims that Proust makes about his practice as a writer is that he is bringing out general laws. It is, he says, ‘superfluous to make a study of sexual mores, since we can deduce them from psychological laws’, and he repeats the idea in terms which obviously apply to himself when he declares in Le Temps retrouvé that it is the ‘feeling for generality which, in the future writer, itself picks out what is general and what can for that reason one day enter into a work of art’. What he is concerned with is what he calls ‘the general laws of love’.74
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