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Narration and Description in the French Realist Novel: The Temporality of Lying and Forgetting

Narration and Description in the French Realist Novel: The Temporality of Lying and Forgetting

Reid, James H.
James H., Reid

Hardcover

Series: Cambridge Studies in French, Book 44

Literary CriticismFiction Anthologies

ISBN10: 052142092X
ISBN13: 9780521420921
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Aug 26 1993
Pages: 240
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
This new study of the nineteenth-century French realist novel focuses on the fundamental incompatibility between the narrative and the descriptive modes of discourse. It shows how major novelists including Balzac, Flaubert and Zola, like some of their twentieth-century successors, grappled with their belief or fear that their stories lied in their representation of time and history, or that their descriptions forgot the reality of their socio-historical world, highlighting their use of irony and allegory in the struggle against the deceitfulness of their own texts.

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