Gerda Renée Blumenthal (1923–2004) was a German-American literary scholar. She taught

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and comparative literature at the

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Life

Gerda Blumenthal was born on July 26, 1923, in Berlin. She escaped Nazi Germany to America around 1941, and studied in

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. She died on April 18, 2004, in Washington, DC.

Works

* ''The poetic imagination of Georges Bernanos: an essay in interpretation'', 1956 * ''André Malraux: the conquest of dread'', 1960 * ''Thresholds: a study of Proust'', 1984

References

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