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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| Language: | English |
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Princeton, NJ :
Princeton University Press,
©2008.
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| ISBN: | 9781400828913 1400828910 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- A real madeleine is a work of art
- Salammbo : three rough stones beneath a rainy sky
- The sacred fount : the case of the man who became extraordinarily
- Amusing
- The ambassadors : what he saw was exactly the right thing
- Lolita : a beautiful, banal, eden-red apple
- A simple heart : Felicite and the holy parrot.