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The paradox of history : Stendhal, Tolstoy, Pasternak, and others / Nicola Chiaromonte.
LIBRA PN3503 .C48 1985
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chiaromonte, Nicola.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- Fiction.
- Fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- History in literature.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 156 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- Revised edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1985, c1970.
- Summary:
- This collection of interrelated literary/historical essays is based on the author's 1966 Christian Gauss lectures at Princeton University. The articles investigate the various attitudes of such giants as Stendahl, Tolstoy, Malraux, and Pasternak, plus other lesser-known authors, toward the idea of "history" as a replacement for earlier theocentric and rationalist world views.
- ISBN:
- 081221210X
- OCLC:
- 11599100
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