Never Say I: Sexuality and the First Person in Colette, Gide, and Proust

by Michael Lucey

Never Say I reveals the centrality of representations of sexuality, and particularly same-sex sexual relations, to the evolution of literary prose forms in twentieth-century France. Rethinking the social and literary innovation of works by Marcel Proust, Andr Gide, and Colette, Michael Lucey considers these writers' production of a first-person voice in which matters related to same-sex sexuality could be spoken of. He shows how their writings...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822338971
• ISBN13: 9780822338970
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.2"