Adventures in the French Trade: Fragments Toward a Life

by Jeffrey Mehlman

Book Overview

This memoir is less a chronicle of the life of a leading scholar and critic of matters French than a series of differently angled fragments, each with its attendant surprise, in what one commentator has called Jeffrey Mehlman's amour vache--his injured and occasionally injurious love--for France and the French. The reader will encounter masters of the art of reading in these pages, the exhilaration elicited by their achievements, and the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804769621
• ISBN13: 9780804769624
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.8"