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Author Turnell, Martin.

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

Publication Info. [New York] : [New Directions], [1959]

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Location Call No. Status
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  843 T85    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  843.09 T    Check Shelf
Description 394 pages : illustrations ; 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.
Subject French fiction -- History and criticism.
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