Larkin (French, U. of Aberdeen) explores the assimilation of photography into late 19th-century and early 20th-century French literature by systemically analyzing Marcel Proust's formal and stylistic use of photographic motifs in his novel In Search of Lost Time (1913-27). She considers thematic appropriations of photography, photography figuratively, narrative focalization and image juxtaposition, striving for synthesis with superimposed images, and clandestine sexualities and photography. Distributed in North America by The David Brown Book Co. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)