Proust's English

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 surprisi...