Literature, sociology, and literature sociology. In relation to sociological readings of A la recherche du temps perdu.

Can a sociological theory be made apparent when it is underlying a literary text ? Based on the analysis of three recent works proposing sociological interpretations of A la recherche du temps perdu, the author shows that suc h an undertaking would have gained from being preceded by some reflection o n the literary writing and sociological writing as well as on the aims of P roust. This widening of the preoccupations into research on the writer tin addition to the text) would paradoxically show the interest in taking into account the results of textual analysis with its: stylistic and narratology elements, while not considering the fictional Proust world as a reality, a nd the text, which allows us to find out about him, as a simple objective r eport.