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M. Jehlen, Five Fictions in Search of Truth
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Information publiée le lundi 11 août 2008 par Gabriel Marcoux-Chabot (source : Site web de la maison d'édition)
JEHLEN, Myra, Five Fictions in Search of Truth, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2008, 182 p.ISBN 978-0-691-13612-7
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Fiction, far from being the opposite of truth, is wholly bent on finding it out, and writing novels is a way to know the real world as objectively as possible. In Five Fictions in Search of Truth, Myra Jehlen develops this idea through readings of works by Flaubert, James, and Nabokov. She invokes Proust's famous search for lost memory as the exemplary literary process, which strives, whatever its materials, for a true knowledge. In Salammbô, Flaubert digs up Carthage; in The Ambassadors, James plumbs the examined life and touches at its limits; while in Lolita, Nabokov traces a search for truth that becomes a trespass.
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Myra Jehlen is the Board of Governors Professor of Literature at Rutgers University. Her books include American Incarnation and Readings at the Edge of Literature.
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