Resumo Este artigo analisa, a partir da leitura do livro A literatura e o mal, do filósofo Georges Bataille, a ideia do Mal presente na obra Em busca do tempo perdido, do escritor Marcel Proust, tomando como base a relação (in)satisfeita do narrador com sua amada Albertine e a noção de desvio estabelecida pelo narrador proustiano em relação à homossexualidade de determinados personagens. Da (in)satisfação e do desvio sexual, a obra proustiana se aproxima do Mal bataillano ao conferir a esses temas a base de sua estrutura narrativa e, pelo movimento discursivo, se afastar cada vez mais do espaço do Bem, que viria a ser o espaço da satisfação, da conduta padrão, da objetividade. A Busca se configura como o espaço do erro, da ambiguidade, do desvio - espaço do Mal.

Abstract Based on a reading of the book Literature and Evil by the philosopher Georges Bataille, this article analyzes the notion of Evil present in Marcel Proust’s novel In Search of Lost Time, taking as the basis the narrator’s (un)satisfied relationship with his beloved Albertine, and also the notion of deviation established by the narrator regarding certain characters’ homosexuality. From (un)satisfaction and sexual deviance, Proust’s work may have some aspects in common with Bataille’s Evil, as for him these topics also become the basis of a narrative structure which, through discursive movement, moves away increasingly from the space of Good, which would become the space of satisfaction, standard behavior and objectivity. In Search of Lost Time is thus configured as the space of error, of ambiguity, of deviation ─ the space of Evil.

Résumé Cet article examine, à partir de la lecture du livre La littérature et le mal, du philosophe Georges Bataille, la notion du Mal présente dans l’œuvre À la recherche du temps perdu, de l’écrivain Marcel Proust, s’appuyant sur la relation (in)satisfaite du narrateur avec sa bien-aimée Albertine et le concept de déviance établi par le narrateur proustien à travers l’homosexualité de certains personnages. De par l’(In)satisfaction et la déviance sexuelle, l'œuvre proustienne se rapproche du Mal bataillien quand elle confère à ces thèmes la base de sa structure narrative et, par le mouvement discursif, s’éloigne de plus en plus de l’espace du Bien, qui serait alors l’espace de la satisfaction, de la conduite normale, de l’objectivité. La Recherche constitue l’espace de l’erreur, de l’ambiguïté, de la déviance ─ espace du Mal.