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Flaubert and the Historical Novel
Anne Green
其他書名
'Salammbô' Reassessed
出版Cambridge University Press, 1982-01-21
主題Literary Criticism / GeneralLiterary Criticism / European / GeneralLiterary Criticism / European / French
ISBN05212376539780521237659
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=XnUPspQsBh4C&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋This 1982 book offers an evaluation of one of Flaubert's major and most controversial novels. Dr Green begins by discussing the nineteenth-century debate about the relation between history and fiction, and examines Flaubert's distinctive responses to it. Then, through a detailed study of the manuscript plans for Salammbô, she shows how Flaubert worked to develop a new kind of historical novel. She shows the balance in his work between careful historical research and imaginative reconstruction; she charts how he modified, amplified, or omitted certain elements in the sources, and suggests his reasons for doing so. The result is a case history of the historical novelist's imagination at work, and one which indicates illuminating perspectives with this area of research. Instead of escaping into a vanished world of the past, Flaubert drew on contemporary French social, political, and economic issues in his recreation of a distant and decadent civilisation nearing its end.