Marina van ZuylenMarina van Zuylen is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Bard College, and serves as the national academic director of the Clemente Course in the Humanities. She is the author of Difficulty as an Aesthetic Principle: Realism and Unredability in Stifter, Melville, and Flaubert and Monomania: The Flight from Everyday Life in Literature and Art. Read More Read Less