Yet the Narrator’s quest is not only for.... : Quote by Adam A. Watt

“ Yet the Narrator’s quest is not only for his own identity and vocation. He seeks an understanding of art, sexuality and worldly and political affairs: he is a snoop and a voyeur; he comments and classifies; his taxonomic impulse makes the novel appear to be a vast compendium, replete with burrowing wasps and bedsteads, military strategies, stereoscopes, asparagus and aeroplanes. ”

Adam A. Watt
  • From : The Cambridge Introduction to Marcel Proust
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