Lily Tuck’s latest novel, “The Double Life of Liliane,” is a tight construction conveniently set up for easy deconstruction, as if it were an exercise given by Paul de Man in a seminar attended by the book’s main character, Liliane, during her last year at Harvard. Speaking of “Remembrance of Things Past,” de Man tells his students that Proust’s novel is “meant to be autobiographical, it is impossible to tell what is fact and what is fiction.”Read full article >>