Five fictions in search of truth /
Fiction, far from being the opposite of truth, is wholly bent on finding it out, and writing novels is a way to know the real world as objectively as possible. In Five Fictions in Search of Truth, Myra Jehlen develops this idea through readings of works by Flaubert, James, and Nabokov. She invokes P...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton, NJ :
Princeton University Press,
©2008.
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| ISBN: | 9781400828913 1400828910 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | Fiction, far from being the opposite of truth, is wholly bent on finding it out, and writing novels is a way to know the real world as objectively as possible. In Five Fictions in Search of Truth, Myra Jehlen develops this idea through readings of works by Flaubert, James, and Nabokov. She invokes Proust's famous search for lost memory as the exemplary literary process, which strives, whatever its materials, for a true knowledge. In Salammbo, Flaubert digs up Carthage; in The Ambassadors, James plumbs the examined life and touches at its limits; while in Lolita, Nabokov traces a search for tru. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (170 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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