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Victor Brombert
A reflective volume of essays on literature and literary study from a storied professor.
In The Pensive Citadel, Victor Brombert looks back on a lifetime of learning within a university…
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Gustave Flaubert
A NEW TRANSLATION BY ADAM THORPE ‘A great novel that is also an inexhaustible pleasure to read’ Guardian Emma Bovary is an avid reader of sentimental novels;
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Victor Brombert reassesses in a modern perspective the power and originality of Hugo’s work, and provides a new interpretation of Hugo’s narrative art as well as a synthesis of his…
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In an unforgettable addition to the literature of memoir, one of America’s preeminent literary scholars tells his story of coming of age in France during the buildup to the Second…
Brombert shows how a text works–its structure and narrative devices, and the symbolic function of characters, episodes, words–and he highlights the distinctive postures and styles of each writer. He gives…
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Paris in the 1930s provides the poetic beginning for this autobiography by one of America’s most renowned literary scholars. Victor Brombert recaptures the story of his youth - his protective…
With delicacy and insight, this title traces the theme of mortality in the work of a group of authors who wrote during the past century and a half, teasing out…
Through critical readings of key works of modern European literature, Victor Brombert shows how a new kind of hero - the antihero - has arisen to replace the toppled heroic…
Drawing deeply from the well of Brombert’s own experience, Musings on Mortality is more than mere literary criticism: it is a moving and elegant book for all to learn and…
Victor Brombert is a lion in the study of French literature, and in this classic of literary criticism, he turns his clear and perspicacious gaze on the works of one…
Francis Steegmuller
Francis Steegmuller’s beautifully executed double portrait of Madame Bovary and her maker is a remarkable and unusual biographical study, a sensitive and detailed account of how an unpromising young man…
Victor H. Brombert
Through a probing study of Flaubert’s novels which brings out their nuances of tone, technique, vision, and meaning, Victor Brombert provides a close and complex analysis of Flaubert’s art in…
Novel in which a woman defies the standards of conventional French society.
Additional Editor Is Melvin Friedman. Articles Include Sartre And The Self-Inflicted Wound By Kenneth Douglas; Racine’s Symbolism By John C. Lapp; The Balcony Of Charles Baudelaire By Neal Oxenhandler; Prufrock…
