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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 exemp

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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.
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July 26th, 2016
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  • Professional & Vocational
  • Tertiary Education (US: College)
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192
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152x235x11
ISBN-13
9780691171234
Product ID
24147576

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