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Proust's English

By (author) Daniel Karlin
Format: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford, United Kingdom
Published: 15th Nov 2007
Dimensions: w 140mm h 216mm d 14mm
Weight: 318g
ISBN-10: 0199256896
ISBN-13: 9780199256891
Barcode No: 9780199256891
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Synopsis
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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...the ambition of this book goes well beyond the analysis of English words and things. From this beginning, Karlin approaches a fine understanding of the entire Proustian project... * Armine Kotin Mortimer French Review * this book is one to be relished in detail