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The art of French fiction: Prévost, Standahl, Zola, Maupassant, Gide, Mauriac, Proust.

Author: Martin Turnell
Publisher: [New York, New Directions, 1959]
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Martin Turnell
OCLC Number: 505720
Description: 394 p. illus. 23 cm.
Contents: Form, vision and language --
The Abbé Prévost --
A priest-novelist in the eighteenth century --
Histoire du Chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut --
The forgotten novels --
Stendahl's first novel --
Zola --
The meaning of naturalism --
Life of the novelist --
Les Rougon-Macquart --
Introduction --
Portrait of an age --
Environment --
Themes --
Five novels --
Le ventre de Paris --
L'assommoir --
Nana --
Germinal --
La terre --
Style --
Conclusion --
Maupassant --
André Gide --
The prodigal son --
The Protestant cell --
The three Récits --
Les faus-monnayeurs --
Minor fiction --
Style --
A single experience --
François Mauriac --
The religion of a novelist --
A provincial childhood --
The world of François Mauriac --
Place --
The family --
The sinner --
Complicity --
Six novels --
Le baiser au lépreux --
Genitrix --
Le désert de l'amour --
Thérèse Desqueyroux --
Destins --
Le noeud de vipères --
Style --
The poisoned source --
The making of a master --
The modern hero.

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