Deceit, Desire, and the Novel Part 2(x2)

snobs, saviors, & sally rooney

This is the second of a two-part post; you can find part one here.

Of the five great novelists Girard discusses in DDN, his analysis of Proust astounded me most. Again, you don’t need to have read Remembrance of Things Past to appreciate it (I haven’t, though certainly plan to now). That the Faubourg Saint-Germain is a historically aristocratic district…