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Struggle for the Soul of the French Novel

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  • © 1989

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Authors:
  1. Malcolm Scott

    1. University of St Andrews, UK

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Introduction

    • Malcolm Scott
    Pages 1-10

  3. The Sceptical Mode

    • Malcolm Scott
    Pages 11-51

  4. The Limping Devil of Barbey d’Aurevilly

    • Malcolm Scott
    Pages 52-89

  5. Zola’s New Testament

    • Malcolm Scott
    Pages 90-120

  6. Huysmans and the Art of Conversion

    • Malcolm Scott
    Pages 121-151

  7. Léon Bloy’s Symbolist Imagination

    • Malcolm Scott
    Pages 152-178

  8. Belief and Narrative Form in the Novels of FranÒ«ois Mauriac

    • Malcolm Scott
    Pages 179-207

  9. Julien Green’s Scale of Realities

    • Malcolm Scott
    Pages 208-236

  10. The Bernanosian Synthesis

    • Malcolm Scott
    Pages 237-266

  11. Concluding Note

    • Malcolm Scott
    Pages 267-269

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 267-294
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This book describes the challenge to traditional Christian beliefs that was inherent in the very concept of literary Realism and presents the Catholic novel as a series of conscious readaptations of Realist techniques and models. Authors studied include Flaubert, Bernanos and Mauriac.

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  • University of St Andrews, UK

    Malcolm Scott

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