Narration and Description in the French Realist Novel The Temporality of Lying and Forgetting

This study of the nineteenth-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, or that their descriptions forgot the reality of their socio-historical world.Reid, James H. is the author of 'Narration and Description in the French Realist Novel The Temporality of Lying and Forgetting' with ISBN 9780521420921 and ISBN 052142092X.