Proust's Latin Americans

by Rubén Gallo

The first discussion of Proust's circle of Latin American friends, lovers, and literary models.

Part biography, part cultural history, part literary study, Rub?n 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421413450
• ISBN13: 9781421413457
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 8.9"