2026/03/17 by Francesca Pierini · 1 voice
Arts and Humanities · #French Literature and Critical Theory #French Literature and Criticism #Literature and Culture Studies
paper · pdf · doi:10.70138/mzix4828
openalex publication_date 2026/03/17 · openalex created_date 2026/03/18 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/09
This Note reads André Aciman’s Room on the Sea (2025) in light of Gillian Beer’s The Romance (1970), a short treatise on the literary form from its origins to the modern era.[1] The protagonists of Aciman’s novella, a man and a woman in their sixties, casually meet while waiting to be possibly selected to serve