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Never Say I: Sexuality and the First Person in Colette, Gide, and Proust

First Person Sexual MICHAEL LUCEY, Never Say I: Sexuality and the First Person in Colette, Gide, and Proust (Durham: Duke UP, 2006), pp. 336, doth, $84.95, paper, $23.95.

Gide records in his journal that during a discussion of his memoirs, Proust exhorted him, "You can tell anything, but on condition that you never say": I." Michael Lucey takes this constraint (and its potentialities) as the title of an important new book in which he examines the life and work of Gide, Proust, and Colette in order to explore all sorts of firstperson narratives: literary, autobiographical, journalistic, epistolary, and conversational. But luckily, Lucey does not take the injunction to heart: he refers to ...

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