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

by James H. Reid

Book Overview

This new study of the nineteenth-century French realist novel focuses on the difference, and fundamental incompatibility, between the narrative and the descriptive modes of discourse. James Reid shows how the major novelists, 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 (rather than...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052142092X
• ISBN13: 9780521420921
• Release Date: September 1993
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"