University Press of America
Pages: 488
Trim: 5¾ x 8¾
978-0-7618-2181-6 • Hardback • January 2002 • $170.00 • (£131.00) - Currently out of stock. Copies will arrive soon.
Frederick John Harris is Professor of French and Comparative Literature, Fordham University, New York.
Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 Acknowledgments
Chapter 3 Introduction
Chapter 4 Beginnings
Chapter 5 The Dreyfus Affair
Chapter 6 From Dreyfus to Swann
Chapter 7 The Quest for Publication
Chapter 8 Grasset or the NRF?
Chapter 9 Issues of Art
Chapter 10 Homosexuality
Chapter 11 The NRF and the Route to Publication
Chapter 12 The War Years I: Breaking with Grasset
Chapter 13 The War Years II: Signing on with the NRF
Chapter 14 The Postwar Era and the NRF
Chapter 15 To Sodom and Gomorrah
Chapter 16 The Last Year
Chapter 17 Conclusion
Chapter 18 Selected Bibliography
Chapter 19 Index
Though targeting a general readership, the book, with its detailed analyses of these fascinating interactions, its organization (basically chronological but with certain thematic highlights), and its notes and index, should appeal to Gide or Proust scholars as well.
— Scott Manning, Susquehanna University; The French Review
. . . the composition of the book, extremely skillful, should arouse the interest of amateurs as well as specialists. . . . One takes a lot of interest and pleasure in reading your book.
— Catherine Gide
Though targeting a general readership, the book, with its detailed analyses of these fascinating interactions, its organization (basically chronological but with certain thematic highlights), and its notes and index, should appeal to Gide or Proust scholars as well.
— Scott Manning, Susquehanna University; The French Review