Paper Gardens: A Stroll Through French Literature

From Jean-Jacques Rousseau to Marcel Proust, from Marguerite Duras to George Sand, from Colette to Patrick Modiano, gardens appear in novels as representations of the real world, but also as reflections of the imagination. In this book the author contemplates the role of the garden in the work of great prose writers, ruminating on how the garden can variously symbolize a reflection of the soul, a well-earned rest, an improving form of work, a nostalgia for childhood, and the dream of an ideal world.--Publisher's description.

• | Author: Evelyne Bloch-Dano
• | Publisher: University Of Virginia Press
• | Publication Date: Apr 26, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 240 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Biography & Autobiography
• | ISBN-10: 0813940257
• | ISBN-13: 9780813940250