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Proust's English (Paperback)
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English is the 'second language' of A la recherche du temps perdu.
Although much has been written about Proust's debt to English
literature, especially Ruskin, Daniel Karlin is the first critic to
focus on his knowledge of the language itself - on vocabulary,
idiom, and etymology. He uncovers an 'English world' in Proust's
work, a world whose social comedy and artistic values reveal
surprising connections to some of the novel's central
preoccupations with sexuality and art. Anglomanie- the fashion for
all things English - has been as powerful a presence in French
culture as hostility to perfide Albion; Proust was both subject to
its influence, and a brilliant critic of its excesses. French
resistance to imported English words remains fierce to this day;
but Proust's attitude to this most contentious aspect of
Anglo-French relations was marked by his rejection of concepts of
national and racial 'purity', and his profound understanding of the
necessary 'impurity' of artistic creation.
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