In the Shadow of Girls in Blossom (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780192845672)

Charlotte Mandell has translated over fifty books, including works by Maurice Blanchot, Jonathan Littell, Gustave Flaubert, and Jean-Luc Nancy. Her translation of Compass by Mathias ?nard was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2017 and was the recipient of the 2018 ALTA National Translation Award in Prose. In April 2021, she received the honour of Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from the French government.

Edward J. Hughes's career as a teacher of French in the University of London began in 1980. He was made Professor of French at Queen Mary, University of London in 2006 and elected Fellow of the British Academy in 2019. His research interests lie in the field of modern and contemporary French and Francophone literature, specialising in the socio-critical reading of a range of authors. He has a long-standing interest in the work of Marcel Proust on whom he has published numerous studies. He is a former President of the Society for French Studies.

Adam Watt is Professor of French & Comparative Literature at the University of Exeter, where he is Deputy Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences. His books include Reading in Proust's A la recherche: le d?lire de la lecture (2009), The Cambridge Introduction to Marcel Proust (2011), a critical biography of Proust (2013); and, as editor, Marcel Proust in Context (2013) and The Cambridge History of the Novel in French (2021). He has published comparative work on Proust and a range of writers from Val?ry, Rivi?re, Beckett, and Barthes to Eve Kosofsky-Sedgwick and Anne Carson.