Article: Les Mots des autres: Lieu commun et creation romanesque dans les oeuvres de Gustave Flaubert, Nathalie Sarraute et Robert Pinget.(Review)(Brief Article)

Les Mots des autres: lieu commun et creation romanesque dans les oeuvres de Gustave Flaubert, Nathalie Sarraute et Robert Pinget. By LAURENT ADERT. (Collection 'Objet') Villeneuve d'Ascq (Nord): Presses Universitaires du Septentrion. 1996. 301 pp. 130 F.

In this stimulating and well-written study, Laurent Adert presents Flaubert, Sarraute, and Pinget as bound together by a common preoccupation with the difficulty of distinguishing 'la dissemblance des sentiments sous la parite des expressions'. The phrase is of course Flaubert's own: in Madame Bovary it is Rodolphe who is unable to make this distinction. Adert sees Sarraute and Pinget as successors to Flaubert's ...

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