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This study of the 19th century French realist novel focuses on the fundamental incompatibility between the narrative and the descriptive modes of discourse. It shows how the major novelists Balzac, Flaubert and Zola, grappled with their belief or fear that their stories lied in their representation of time and history.Reid, James H. is the author of 'Narration And Description in the French Realist Novel The Temporality of Lying And Forgetting', published 2006 under ISBN 9780521029780 and ISBN 0521029783.
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