About the Author

Allen Thiher is Curators’ Distinguished Professor of Romance Languages Emeritus at the University of Missouri–Columbia and is a permanent fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge University. His books include Understanding Marcel Proust and Understanding Robert Musil, both published by the University of South Carolina Press, as well as studies of Louis-Ferdinand Céline, and Raymond Queneau, an earlier study of Kafka, and books on French cinema, literary theory, and science and literature. He lives in retirement with his wife in Sofia, Bulgaria.