id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-15763 Mulrooney, David Casanova, Pascale. The World Republic of Letters. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Pr., 2004. 420p. alk. paper, $35 (ISBN: 067401345X). LC: 2004-54359. 2005-11-01 2 .pdf application/pdf 1239 49 48 Paris has a unique power to legislate on literary matters and acts as a Greenwich Meridian of literary time in defining what is modern through the writings of its avant-garde. It is the city in which writers whose genius is not immediately rec- ognized in their own countries find an au- dience (Faulkner and Joyce in particular); a writer celebrated in Paris becomes part of the pantheon of universal writers. cache/crl-15763.pdf txt/crl-15763.txt