英文摘要 |
Marcel Proust's "A la recherche du temps perdu" is not meant to recollect what has been lost in time, but to narrate a long apprenticeship of Marcel's becoming a writer. Nothing frustrates Marcel more than his smothering love journey with Albertine in the apprenticeship. Beginning from Marcels' teenage years and ending in Albertine's sudden death, their love, fairly speaking, bears indispensable significance in Marcel's apprenticeship of becoming a writer and himself. This paper attempts to understand the recurring "jealousy" in Marcel's love for Albertine in terms of passive affections and joyful passive affections in Spinoza's "Ethics" and Deleuze's "Expressionism in Philosophy", respectively. This paper argues that even in jealousy, as a passive affection, the power of action comes into play. Marcel's jealousy is provoked by Albertine's face; her face "expresses." That is to say, this expression causes "problems" and drives everything/everyone involved to "act." Jealousy is intrinsically involved with explication; in other words, its happening coincides with the acts of explication. Marcel's power of action is laid bare in his desperate attempt at explication, and it is exactly in his explicating act that he becomes himself. This paper maintains that Marcel's act of creating is by no means an emergent state "ex nihilo", but rather, it is a ceaseless process of becoming developed and driven by Marcel's capacity of being affected. |