{"product_id":"prousts-english-9780199256891","title":"Proust's English","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Daniel Karlin\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: OUP Oxford\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: European - French\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEnglish is the 'second language' of \u003cem\u003eA la recherche du temps perdu\u003c\/em\u003e. Although much has been written about Proust's debt to English literature, especially Ruskin, Daniel Karlin is the first critic to focus on his knowledge of the language itself - on vocabulary, idiom, and etymology. He uncovers an 'English world' in Proust's work, a world whose social comedy and artistic values reveal surprising connections to some of the novel's central preoccupations with sexuality and art. \u003cem\u003eAnglomanie\u003c\/em\u003e- the fashion for all things English - has been as powerful a presence in French culture as hostility to \u003cem\u003eperfide Albion\u003c\/em\u003e; Proust was both subject to its influence, and a brilliant critic of its excesses. French resistance to imported English words remains fierce to this day; but Proust's attitude to this most contentious aspect of Anglo-French relations was marked by his rejection of concepts of national and racial 'purity', and his profound understanding of the necessary 'impurity' of artistic creation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"OUP Oxford","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46888074150039,"sku":"9780199256891","price":6232.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780199256891.webp?v=1770258793","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/prousts-english-9780199256891","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}