Poetique des cycles romanesques de Balzac a Volodine

by Thomas Conrad

Book cover: Poetique des cycles romanesques de Balzac a Volodine

Extent: 498 pages

Publisher: Classiques Garnier

Subjects: Literary Studies

Series: Theorie de la litterature

Series volume number: 9

Language: French

Paperback (Published)

(April 2016)

ISBN: 9782812438516

Price: $69.00

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Why do writers link their novels together in cycles? What processes do they employ to do this? Is our reading of a novel transformed if it is inserted into a cycle? This work proposes a general poetics of the cycle, from Balzac to Volodine, via Dumas, Zola, Giono, and Asimov.

  • By (author) Thomas Conrad