Bücher von Stirling Haig

This collection of twelve essays written in English and French honors Victor Henri Brombert, the eminent humanist, thinker, and scholar of nineteenth- and twentieth-century European letters. Though their subjects range broadly over the literature, music, and painting of France, Russia, Italy, and Germany, many of the essays share concerns, topics, or methods, thus creating illuminating parallels and contrasts as well as internal coherence. Contributors are Simone Balay‚ Peter Brooks, Caryl Emerson, Jean Gaudon, Gerard Genette, Stirling Haig, Georges May, Jacques Neefs, Gerald Prince, Jean-Pierre Richard, Carol Rigolot, and Albert Sonnenfeld.

This is the first book-length study of Flaubert's use of dialogue, an important but neglected component of his fictional texts. Professor Haig's starting point is Sartre's observation that 'Flaubert does not believe that we speak: we are spoken'.

This study places the novel, first published in 1830, in the context of its time and highlights the interpretration of the personal and the fictional in Stendhal's writing. The realism of the novel is derived from an incorporation of history and legal reportage.