Savage Reprisals: Bleak House, Madame Bovary, Buddenbrooks

ISBN-13: 9780393325096 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 194 str.

Peter Gay

Opis

Typically, readers believe that fiction, especially the Realist novels that dominated Western culture for most of the nineteenth century and beyond, is based on historical truth and that great novels possess a documentary value. That trust, Gay brilliantly shows, is misplaced; novels take their own path to reality. Using Dickens, Flaubert, and Mann as his examples, Gay explores their world, their craftsmanship, and their minds. In the process, he discovers that all three share one overriding quality: a resentment and rage against the society that sustains the novel itself. Using their stylish writing as a form of revenge, they deal out savage reprisals, which have become part of our Western literary canon. ANew York Times Notable Book and a Best Book of 2002.