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Article: Female Victims and Oppressors in Novels by Theodor Fontane and Francois Mauriac.(Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- October 1, 2000
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Female Victims and Oppressors in Novels by Theodor Fontane and Francois Mauriac. By SUSAN WANSINK. (Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures, 53) New York: Lang. 1998. vii + 139 pp. 24 [pounds sterling].
In only the second sentence of her book, Susan Wansink lists Gide among this century's 'great [...] Catholic authors' (p. 1): hardly an auspicious start! However, once she turns to a close analysis of her chosen novelists, she produces a careful and relatively original comparative study. The originality derives largely from the fact that the comparison is so unexpected. The German novelist died over a decade before the Frenchman's first work was ...