Description: Proust's Latin Americans will be of interest to scholars of modernism, French literature, Proust studies, gender studies, and Latin American studies.
Brief description: Rubén Gallo is a professor of Latin American literature in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Cultures and director of the Program in Latin American Studies at Princeton University. He is the author of several books, including Freud's Mexico: Into the Wilds of Psychoanalyses, which won the Gradiva Award, and Mexican Modernity, winner of the Katherine Singer Kovacs Award.
Review Quotes: Gallo has produced a unique, eloquent, and gratifying study of four Latin Americans who influenced Proust's life . . . Highly recommended.
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