Proust and America : The Influence of American Art, Culture, and Literature on A la recherché du temps perdu /

"It is strange," Proust wrote in 1909, "that, in the most widely different departments ... there should be no other literature which exercises over me so powerful an influence as English and American." In the spirit of Proust's admission, this engaging and critical volume of...

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Main Author: Murphy, Michael, 1965-2009 (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Liverpool (Eng.) : Liverpool University Press, 2007.
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