Deceit, desire, and the novel : self and other in literary structure
Title:
Deceit, desire, and the novel : self and other in literary structure
Author:
Girard, Rene.
ISBN:
9780801802201
9780801818301
Personal Author:
Edition:
Johns Hopkins pbk. ed.
Publication Information:
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976, c1965.
Physical Description:
318 p. ; 22 cm.
General Note:
"Originally published in Paris in 1961 as Mensonge romantique et verite romanesque."
Contents:
"Triangular" desire -- Men become gods in the eyes of each other -- The metamorphosis of desire -- Master and slave -- The red and the black -- Technical problems in Stendhal, Cervantes, and Flaubert -- The hero's Askesis -- Masochism and sadism -- The worlds of Proust -- Technical problems in Proust and Dostoyevsky -- The Dostoyevskian apocalypse -- The conclusion.