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"