San Antonio College Library

"Viewing the "intellectual" as the key figure in the modern French novel and as the ailing prophet of an entire epoch, Victor Brombert here describes him dramatically as "the hero and the victim of a tortured era which has experienced politics as tragedy, freedom as necessity and where history has assumed the urgent voice of a fatum." Studying representative protagonists of such writers as Emile Zola, Anatole France, Roger Martin du Gard, Louis Guilloux,...

Examines the historical background and analyzes individual authors and their writings, including Stendhal, Balzac, Sand, Baudelaire, and Flaubert.

Account of the revolution in French literary style since the early 19th century.

"This volume brings together a series of new essays representing the latest scholarly thinking on the novelist's work and critical legacy. Textual analyses of the full range of Flaubert's work, including Madame Bovary, are accompanied by discussion of broader theoretical issues, and of Flaubert's place in the canon of French literature. This variety of approaches not only provides a robust critical framework, but also yields insights into why Flaubert's...

Honore de Balzac - Samuel Beckett - Maurice Balnchot - Chateaubriand - Dante - Rene Descates - Denis Diderot - Gustave Flaubert - Gerard Genette - Victor Hugo - Eugene Ionesco - La Fayette - Napoleon - Marcel Proust - Jean-Paul Sartre - Stendhal - Richard Wagner.