Marta Dvořák was born in Budapest, raised in Canada, and went on to become professor of Canadian and World Literatures at the Sorbonne in Paris, where she became a close friend of Mavis Gallant.

• Acknowledgments1. Acquisitions: Mapping World and Work  an Acrostic for MavisMavis, osmosis, & the Artful Dodgerthe medium calling the tune?why Degas?Mavis, the (moving) pictures, and musicborderblurbeyond our current way of seeing2. Is it Dead or Alive?Gallant’s shining language: wholeness, harmony, and radiance"the rest is just rice pudding": compression & expansion"not mad, not drowning, not Ophelia": a poetics of rhythm3. The Oratorical Triad: "Like Looking Into the Sun"upstairs & downstairs: the banal & the barbarismthe calf & the ox: comical cleavagepoetic speech & the heard wordmetre and the art of sinking — & rising againvisual overlays: page & screenan ellipsoidal narrative rhythm through which ideas rush: where import lies4. Dissonance & Syncopation "silent, flickering areas of light": making strange "tougher than bulldogs": the odd man out"tum titty": adjacency pairsframe-breaking: The Real and the ReelSurfeit and Lack5. Text/Image Borderblur, & Cubist Realism"you paint not what you see but what you know is there"never happier than in an artist’s studio: intersections "taking apart & putting together"a fraught realism6. Who Is I and When Is Here? simultanism vs clocktime the subject-centred perceptual apparatusdouble vision: from short cut to short circuit7. "How Can You Tell What Somebody’s Worth? What’s the Measure?"Works Cited Index

"Mavis Gallant: The Eye and the Ear, a landmark study by Marta Dvořák, presents a compelling case that Gallant’s keen visual and aural senses were profoundly shaped by her immersion in art, film, and music. In what Dvořák calls a modernist assimilation of literary texts, visual culture, and music, Gallant submerged herself in Marcel Proust, James Joyce, and the Russians, as well as Pablo Picasso, Ella Fitzgerald, the composer Dmitri Shostakovich, and the film director Wallace Worsley." - Gregory Shupak (Literary Review of Canada)