Title The dialectics of isolation : self and society in the French novel from the Realists to Proust / Richard Terdiman.

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Description	xvi, 265 pages ; 22 cm.
Series	Yale Romanic studies ; 2d ser., 25
	Yale Romanic studies. Second series ; 25.
Bibliography	Bibliography: pages 249-256.
Note	Includes index.
Contents	pt. 1. Notes on the great century: Coherence of the tradition -- Stendhal: unhappiness in action -- Balzac: the logic of failure -- Flaubert and after: failure formalized -- pt. 2. Proust: reconceiving the tradition: Depreciation of the event -- Devaluation of suspense -- Transitions -- Synthetic mode -- Narration in La fugitive.
Subject	French fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
	French fiction.
Chronological Term	19th century
Subject	Psychological fiction, French -- History and criticism.
	Psychological fiction, French.
	Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922 -- Criticism and interpretation.
	Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922.
	Criticism and interpretation.
	Social isolation in literature.
	Social isolation in literature.
	Realism in literature.
	Realism in literature.
	Self in literature.
	Self in literature.
ISBN	0300018886
	9780300018882