Narration and Description in the French Realist Novel: The Temporality of Lying and Forgetting Book

	Preface
	Acknowledgements
	Introduction	1
1	Balzac: the power of lying and the irony of power	12
	Descriptive irony and knowledge: historical change as social difference	13
	Narrative irony and power: society as historical differentiation	35
	Irony of narrative irony: power, renunciation, and repetition	49
2	Descriptive and narrative self-deception: Flaubert's allegory of parody	64
	Temporalizing, interiorizing, and textualizing Balzacian space	65
	Parodying romantic discourse's descriptive aspect	75
	Parodying discourse's narrative aspect: from lying to forgetting	85
	Beyond parody: from forgetting to repetition	104
3	Forgetting and beyond: Zola and allegory	115
	History, consciousness, and reversibility	116
	Spatializing time: history, the descriptive, and forgetting	128
	Forgetting forgetting: beyond historicism and beyond the descriptive	141
	Conclusion	154
	Notes	166
	Bibliography	202
	Index	211