Narration and Description in the French Realist Novel The Temporality of Lying and Forgetting |
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| Author:
| Reid, James H. |
| Contribution by:
| Sheringham, Michael |
| Series title: | Cambridge Studies in French Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-521-42092-1 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 1993 |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $209.95 |
Book Description:
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This 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 the major novelists Balzac, Flaubert and Zola, 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.
This 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 the major novelists Balzac, Flaubert and Zola, 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.