Even in the essays devoted to Proust and Claudel, the essays guided by the most comprehensive structure, Rousset must decide to consider as genetic accidents each episode, each character whose eventual independence from the central theme or general organization of the work is noticeable (p. ); lie must accept the confrontation of the true Proust with the Novelist to whom, moreover, he can sometimes do wrong, just as the true Proust, according to Rousset, is also capable of missing the truth of love, etc.