Subversions of Verisimilitude: Reading Narrative from Balzac to Sartre

by Lawrence R. Schehr

Subversions of Verisimilitude focuses on the ways in which a number of French literary narratives written in the realist tradition show a dynamic balance between the desire of the author/narrator to present a verisimilar world and the need for aesthetic balance. While the works studied-narratives by Balzac, Flaubert, Zola, Colette, Proust, and Sartre-range over the course of a century, from 1835 to 1938, they share a perspective on the relations between...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823231356
• ISBN13: 9780823231355
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"