Thus, one critic equally uses ‘méditation sur l’oubli’, ‘réflexions’ et ‘charmante variation sur l’idéalisme subjectif procuré par l’ivresse’ as designations for the thoughts of the protagonist another critic mentions the importance of ‘l’essai’ in Le Temps retrouvé, but his analysis is based on a very loose association between this generic label (‘Essay’) and ‘philosophie’, ‘méditation’ (once more) and reflexivity.
Still, the confusion caused by the numerous terms used to refer to those theories in Le Temps retrouvé should invite us to be more careful. They skip any analysis of the status and nature of such sequences, which are, implicitly, taken for granted.
Most Proustian critics consider the theoretical pages in Le Temps retrouvé, especially what is commonly called “L’adoration perpétuelle”, as sequences contrasting sharply with the narrative but they indiscriminately use different terms to designate them, and view such sequences simply as nonfictional, only to examine the effect produced by the presence of such pages, their relation to the Proustian theories expressed in the Contre Sainte-Beuve papers or the thoughts of philosophers.
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