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Five Fictions in Search of Truth
Myra Jehlen
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Description for Five Fictions in Search of Truth
Hardback.
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 Proust's famous search for lost memory as the exemplary literary process, which strives, whatever its materials, for a true knowledge. In Salammbo, Flaubert digs up Carthage; in The Ambassadors, James plumbs the examined life and touches at its limits; while in Lolita, Nabokov traces a search for ... Read more
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 Proust's famous search for lost memory as the exemplary literary process, which strives, whatever its materials, for a true knowledge. In Salammbo, Flaubert digs up Carthage; in The Ambassadors, James plumbs the examined life and touches at its limits; while in Lolita, Nabokov traces a search for ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691136127
SKU
V9780691136127
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About Myra Jehlen
Myra Jehlen is the Board of Governors Professor of Literature at Rutgers University. Her books include "American Incarnation" and "Readings at the Edge of Literature".
Reviews for Five Fictions in Search of Truth
"If her Readings at the Edge of Literature did not reveal Jehlen as a formidable critic, this study of five novels should. The book defies easy categorization as it probes and interrogates reality and its truths."
Choice "Five Fictions in Search of Truth is wise to attend to writers' confrontations with reality, since such moments, once give a form as style, ... Read more
Choice "Five Fictions in Search of Truth is wise to attend to writers' confrontations with reality, since such moments, once give a form as style, ... Read more