Annotations to Vanity fair

by Oscar Mandel

From Thackeray's Vanity Fair is a comedy--or tragicomedy--of manners imbedded in a large and complex socio-historical context. Professor Gordon Ray has rightly spoken of its 'perpectual allusiveness.' The allusions are to hisotirical personages, to a broad range of places and events, to other works of art, but also to a multitude of details of contemorary life. Seldom has a novelist anchored his timeless views of the world so firmly i the specifics of his own culture....

118 pages, Hardcover

First published July 22, 1981

About the author

Oscar Mandel, poète, traducteur, fabuliste et dramaturge américain, est né en 1926 à Anvers (Belgique). En 1939, adolescent, il est contraint d'émigrer avec sa famille vers les États-Unis.
Il écrit aussi bien en anglais qu'en français.

Oscar Mandel, American poet, translator, fabulist and playwright, was born in 1926 in Antwerp (Belgium). In 1939, a teenager, he was forced to emigrate with his family to the United States.
He writes both in English and French.