This up-to-date account of the novel's composition, structure, and achievement provides readers with the literary and historical knowledge needed to make sense of the text. Professor Bellos explains how Balzac challenged prevailing nineteenth-century expectations of what novels should be like.
| ISBN: | 9780521327992 |
| Publication date: | 26th November 1987 |
| Author: | David Bellos |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 128 pages |
| Series: | Landmarks of World Literature |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers |