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Article: Erzahltes Theater: Szenische Illusionen im europaischen Roman des 19. und fruhen 20. Jahrhunderts.(Book review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- April 1, 2006
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Erzahltes Theater: Szenische Illusionen im europaischen Roman des 19. und fruhen 20. Jahrhunderts. By Markus Raith. (Communicatio, 32) Tubingen: Niemeyer. 2004. 222 pp. 38 [euro]. ISBN 3-484-63032-9.
Markus Raith has written a splendidly lively and thoughtful book. In it he explores a number of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century novels in which a visit to the theatre occupies a central place in the thematic and symbolic argument of the text. He gives detailed analyses of Flaubert's Madame Bovary, Zola's Nana, Herman Bang's Stuck, Wilde's Portrait of Dorian Gray, and Proust's A la recherche duo temps perdu. He also offers briefer commentaries on Balzac's Les ...