Savage Reprisals: Bleak House, Madame Bovary, Buddenbrooks

Title: Savage Reprisals: Bleak House, Madame Bovary, Buddenbrooks
Author: Peter Gay
Literary Criticism: 1703401
ISBN: 9780393051186
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
Published: 2002
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Edition: First Edition
Number of Pages: 192
Section: Literary Criticism | General
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Publisher Description: Focusing on three literary classics - Charles Dickens's Bleak House (1853); Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary (1857); and Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks (1901) - Peter Gay, a cultural historian, demonstrates that there is more than one way to read a novel. Typically readers believe that fiction, especially those that dominated the Western culture of the 19th century, is based on historical truth. Gay uses his examples to show that novels take their own path to reality. He discovers, by exploring their world, craftsmanship and their minds, that all three novelist share one overriding quality - a resentment and rage against the society that sustains the novel itself.