Translations:CP 03024/26/en

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  1. The expression "péripétie" (peripetia) relates to the poetics of tragic drama, such as the "episode" where Proust sets out the story of Albertine. See his letter of [shortly after 12 December 1919] to André Chaumeix: "it is the recollection of this episode [the scene at Montjouvain] that arouses the jealousy of the narrator [...] leading to what in the theatre is known as peripetia" (CP 03988; Kolb, XVIII, no. 308). [NM]