| Description |
213 pages ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 197-208. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Balzac's Girl with the golden eyes : Parisian masks, not faces -- Zola's L'assommoir : Paris's stranglehold on the lives of the poor -- D'Annunzio's Child of pleasure : a city's power of seduction -- Rilke's Notebooks : Paris and the pantoms of the past -- Proust's Remembrance of things past : Venice and the reality within the dream -- Bely's Saint Petersburg : a city conjured by a visionary symbolist -- Romain's Death of a nobody : a city's collective soul -- Dos Passos's Manhattan transfer : the death of a metropolis -- Durrell's Alexandria quartet : "a whore among cities" -- Butor' Passing time : the equivocal reality of a city. |
| Form |
Also issued online. |
| Subject |
Fiction -- History and criticism.
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Fiction. |
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City and town life in literature.
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City and town life in literature. |
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Roman -- Histoire et critique. |
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Villes dans la littérature. |
| ISBN |
0838621562 : $14.50 |
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9780838621561 |
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