Author: Josipovici, Gabriel
Title: The World and the Book; A Study of Modern Fiction.
Description: Stanford, Stanford University Press, 1971. orig. boards. 22x14cm, xviii,318 pp. Minor rubbing. Light bump to spine. VG. dustwrapper. ¶ Contents: Proust: A Voice in Search of Itself; The World as a Book; Chaucer: The Teller and the Tale; Rabelais: Language and Laughter; Some Thoughts on the Rise of the Novel; Hawthorne: Allegory and Compulsion; Modernism and Romanticism; 'Lolita': Parody and the Pursuit of Beauty; ' Herzog': Freedom and Wit; Golding: The Hidden Source; Surfaces and Structures; The World and the Book.

Keywords: Literary Criticism, Modern Fiction, Comparative, Modernism, Literature, Marcel Proust, William Golding, Vladimir Nabokov, Saul Bellow