Guided by enthusiasm, Edwin Frank’s study sidesteps the pitfalls of canonisation
Edwin Frank has for the past 25 years been editorial director of NYRB Classics, the beloved cult publishers whose list feels like the product of a single, idiosyncratic sensibility. This makes him particularly well-placed to have written this ambitious and insightful account of what he calls the “lives of the Twentieth-century novel”.
” At other times his writing takes the qualities of its object of study: “Proust would continue to rework his book until the end of his life, and if it is notorious not only for its length as a whole but also for the length of its individual sentences, that is because in it the individual sentence often functions as a kind of sample of the whole book , going on until it seems at risk of losing its raison d’être, going on until the reader may despair of its going anywhere — as Proust’s...
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