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Proust´s Latin Americans
Rubén Gallo
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Description for Proust´s Latin Americans
Hardback. Proust's Latin Americans will be of interest to scholars of modernism, French literature, Proust studies, gender studies, and Latin American studies. Series: Hopkins Studies in Modernism. Num Pages: 280 pages, 54, 8 colour plates, 31 black & white halftones, 15 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 162 x 23. Weight in Grams: 514.
Part biography, part cultural history, part literary study, Ruben Gallo's book explores the presence of Latin America in Proust's life and work. The novelist lived in an era shaped by French colonial expansion into the Americas: just before his birth, Napoleon III installed Maximilian as emperor of Mexico, and during the 1890s France was shaken by the Panama Affair, a financial scandal linked to the construction of the canal in which thousands of French citizens lost their life savings. It was in the context of these tense Franco-Latin American relations that the novelist met the circle of friends discussed in ... Read more
Part biography, part cultural history, part literary study, Ruben Gallo's book explores the presence of Latin America in Proust's life and work. The novelist lived in an era shaped by French colonial expansion into the Americas: just before his birth, Napoleon III installed Maximilian as emperor of Mexico, and during the 1890s France was shaken by the Panama Affair, a financial scandal linked to the construction of the canal in which thousands of French citizens lost their life savings. It was in the context of these tense Franco-Latin American relations that the novelist met the circle of friends discussed in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Condition
New
Series
Hopkins Studies in Modernism
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421413457
SKU
V9781421413457
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About Rubén Gallo
Ruben Gallo is a professor of Latin American literature in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Cultures and director of the Program in Latin American Studies at Princeton University. He is the author of several books, including Freud's Mexico: Into the Wilds of Psychoanalyses, which won the Gradiva Award, and Mexican Modernity, winner of the Katherine ... Read more
Reviews for Proust´s Latin Americans
Gallo has produced a unique, eloquent, and gratifying study of four Latin Americans who influenced Proust's life... Highly recommended. Choice ...the study is well-written, highly enjoyable and informative, and could be seen as introducing a new perspective in the study of Proust's life and work. Modern Language Review