The Hidden Reader: Stendhal, Balzac, Hugo, Baudelaire, Flaubert

by Victor Brombert

Victor Brombert is an unrivaled interpreter of French literature; and the writers he considers in this latest book are ones with whom he has a long acqualntance. These essays--eleven of them appearing in English for the first time and some totally new--give us an acute analysis of the major figures of the nineteenth century and a splendid lesson in criticism.

Brombert shows how a text works--its structure and narrative devices,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674731557
• ISBN13: 9780674731554
• Release Date: February 1988
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"