Paper Gardens: A Stroll Through French Literature

by Evelyne Bloch-Dano

Book Overview

From Jean-Jacques Rousseau to Marcel Proust, from Marguerite Duras to George Sand, from Colette to Patrick Modiano, gardens appear in novels as representations of the real world, but also as reflections of the imagination. In Paper Gardens: A Stroll through French Literature, velyne Bloch-Dano contemplates the role of the garden in the work of great prose writers, ruminating on how the garden can variously symbolize a reflection of the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813940257
• ISBN13: 9780813940250
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.8" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher