Proust's English
By: Daniel Karlin.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
Subjects: Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922 -- Language; French language -- Foreign words and phrases -- English; England -- In literature
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Text is in English and French.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-218) and index.