Five Fictions in Search of Truth / / Myra Jehlen.
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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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2008] ©2008 |
| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- PROLOGUE. A Real Madeleine Is a Work of Art
- CHAPTER ONE. Salammbô: Three Rough Stones beneath a Rainy Sky
- CHAPTER TWO. The Sacred Fount: The Case of the Man Who Suddenly Grew Smart
- CHAPTER THREE. The Ambassadors: What He Saw Was Exactly the Right Thing
- CHAPTER FOUR. Lolita: A Beautiful, Banal, Eden-Red Apple
- CHAPTER FIVE. A Simple Heart: Félicité and the Holy Parrot
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index