Five Fictions in Search of Truth /

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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Jehlen, Myra
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2008.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Fiction.
PHILOSOPHY > Aesthetics.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
TRAVEL > Special Interest > Literary.
Roman > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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