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Article: L'Amant resusite de la mort d'amour: en cinq livres (1558).(Brief Article)(Book Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- October 1, 2003
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L'Amant resuscite de la mort d'amour: en cinq livres (1558). By NICOLAS DENISOT. Ed. by VERONIQUE DUCHE-GAVET. Geneva: Droz. 1998. 419 pp. SwF 92. ISBN 2-600-00254-5.
As Veronique Duche-Gavet appears to assert in her introduction to this text, its eclectic nature arguably offers more to tempt the present-day researcher than it did to thrill its contemporary audience, for the work was not a success in its own time. Nevertheless, Duche-Gavet's decision to produce a critical edition of the text will be keenly greeted by those interested in the sixteenth-century French novel, not least because Gustave Reynier's pioneering Roman sentimental avant 'L'Astree' (Paris: Armand ...