Does one have the right to constitute this metaphysics or aesthetics so well adapted to Proust and Claudel as the general method of struc- turalism? 55 This, however, is precisely what Rousset does, in the extent to which, as we have at least tried to demonstrate, he decides that everything not intelligible in the light of a “preestablished” teleological framework, and not visible in its simultaneity, is reducible to the inconsequentiality of accident or dross. 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” “eac