Using a thematic approach, Trevor Field studies some 75 fictional diarists worldwide. The examples range from light-hearted trivia to the works of Nobel prize-winners like Sartre and Golding. The author shows the diary novel to be a popular and imaginative literary form of great versatility. Trevor Field is author of a bibliography of the novelist and politician Maurice Barres and is author of articles on French writers including Barres, Balzac, Butor, Green and Proust.
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