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 Proust''s famous search for lost memory as the exemplary literary process, which strives, whatever it...

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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 Proust''s famous search for lost memory as the exemplary literary process, which strives, whatever it...

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  • Formats: pdf
  • ISBN: 9781400828913
  • Publication Date: 11 Aug 2008
  • Publisher: Princeton University Press
  • Product language: English
  • Drm Setting: DRM