Subversions of Verisimilitude: Reading Narrative from Balzac to Sartre

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S U B V E R S I O N S O F V E R I S I M I L I T U D E SUBVERSIONS OF VERISIMILITUDE Reading Narrative from Balzac to Sartre  Lawrence R. Schehr Fordham University Press New York 2009 Copyright 䉷 2009 Fordham University Press All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or any other—except for brief quotations in printed reviews, without the prior permission of the publisher. Fordham University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for external or third-party Internet websites referred to in this publication and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Schehr, Lawrence R. Subversions of verisimilitude : reading narrative from Balzac to Sartre / Lawrence R. Schehr.—1st ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8232-3135-5 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. French fiction—19th century—History and criticism. 2. French fiction—20th century—History and criticism. 3. Realism in literature. 4. Probability in literature. 5. Narration (Rhetoric) 6. Discourse analysis, Narrative. I. Title. PQ653.S27 2009 843⬘.70912—dc22 2009009477 Printed in the United States of America 11 10 09 5 4 3 2 1 First edition For Michael A. Johnson and Denis M. Provencher in deepest friendship and with my gratitude. ...