Talk by MICHAEL ALEXANDER
Pasternak's great novel. and Lampedusa's, grew out of two worlds
' united in the strife that divided them.' Closely placed in time and with some similarity of subject-matter, they are very different in technique and basic approach. Can they be fruitfully related?
Michael Alexander , recently appointed to a Research Fellowship in Comparative Literature at Princeton, suggests that they can. and examines what we may see if we use these two artistic visions as a single pair of eyes.