Cooking and Georges Perec Beyond the importance of food and eating in Perec's works, appears an analogy, between the art of cooking and that of writing, which owes much to Proust — not so much to the edibility of Proust's work, which has to do with the melding together af many ingredients whereas Perec's work is about lists and separate elements, as to the figure of the artist as ascetic, even anorexic, cook.

Spiritual eroticism in the charterhouse of Parma : Fabrice and Saint Jérome. When Fabrice sends Clelia's uncle a fine edition of Saint Jerome's Works (his anotations have ned the chaplain 's copy) she asks to compare the copies, and reads Fabrice's love in his pious glosses. However, Saint Jerome is in himself important to the novel.

Bug-Jargal: Revolution and its Doubles Hugo's first novel, which we know mainly in its later 1 826 version, shows an ambivalence and fascination with the notion of Revolution, and a pessi- mistic vision of inconclusive heroic sacrifice, which link it with a similarly ambivalent novel of the Revolution and similarly inconclusive figure of heroic self-sacrifice, Hugo's last, Quatre-vingt treize (Ninety-three).