The Hidden Reader: Stendhal, Balzac, Hugo, Baudelaire, Flaubert

by Victor Brombert

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 us a sense of the hidden inner text as well as the techniques writers have devised to lead their readers to the discovery of what is hidden. With wonderful subtlety he unravels the reader's participatory response, whether it be Hugo reading Shakespeare,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674731557
• ISBN13: 9780674731554
• Release Date: February 1988
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"