Narration and Description in the French Realist Novel
Subtitle: The Temporality of Lying and Forgetting (Cambridge Studies in French)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 2, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9780521029780
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; French; Europe; European - General; French fiction--19th century--History and cri; French fiction--19th century--History and criticism; Literary Collections / Continental European; Literary Criticism & Collections / European
First sentence: Of course it has traditionally been thought that words for Balzac were a mere realist means of representing literally the concrete world he observed.