Marcel Proust: On Reading Ruskin Claudette Johnson "Can the Subaltern Speak

"Can the Subaltern Speak

Benny Andrews

edited by Cornelia Mattiacci and Peter Benson Miller

Uniquely playing with the contradiction of our complicity with structures both macro and micro

Marcel Proust: On Reading Ruskin Claudette Johnson "Can the Subaltern SpeakYale University Press, 2009, Softcover, 246 pages, 20. 32 x 12. 7 cm Early in his career, Marcel Proust, who greatly admired John Ruskin, published translations of two works by the English critic La Bible dAmiens (1900) and Ssame et les Lys (1906). He wrote a substantial preface to each book and provided discursive notes that were themselves often small essays. Rare now, even in their French versions, the preface to La Bible dAmiens and the notes to