Trains of Thought: Memories of a Stateless Youth

"A beautifully cadenced work of art-it will remind some readers of Nabokov's classic Speak, Memory."-Joyce Carol Oates

Paris in the 1930s-melancholy, erotic, intensely politicized-provides the poetic beginning for this remarkable autobiography by one of America's most renowned literary scholars. In Trains of Thought Victor Brombert recaptures the story of his youth in a Proustian reverie, recalling, with a rare combination of humor and tenderness, his childhood in France, his family's escape...