Recovering Your Story: Proust, Joyce, Woolf, Faulkner, Morrison
Arnold L. Weinstein, . . Random, $26.95 (496pp) ISBN 978-1-4000-6094-8
Weinstein, a professor of comparative literature at Brown, sets out to open up some of the great works of 20th-century fiction to the general reader. His decades in academia show: this is a teacherly account of the authors covered, and although the prose is mostly accessible and shies away from academic jargon, a reader must come to the book with some knowledge of concepts not usually discussed in general conversation: epistemology,
Reviewed on: 11/28/2005
Genre: Nonfiction