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Deceit, desire, and the novel

  • René Girard

4.50

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Discussion of the thesis that any goal which the protagonist of a novel seeks has been suggested by a mediator and that this "triangular desire" is the form of all great novels.

Genres

  • History and criticism
  • Example
  • Fiction
  • Roman
  • Exemple
  • Histoire et critique
  • Desire in literature
  • Fiction, history and criticism
  • Wensen
  • Letterkunde
  • Literatuurtheorie
  • Romankunst
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About the author

  • René Girard

    1923 - 2015

    4.75

    8 ratings · 54 works

Editions

  • Edition cover

    Metis Yayincilik

    Nov 01, 2000

  • Edition cover

    Lit

    December 1, 1999

  • Edition cover

    The Johns Hopkins University Press

    April 1, 1976

  • Edition cover

    The Johns Hopkins University Press

    February 1, 1966

  • Edition cover

    Hachette Littérature

    August 1, 1999

  • Edition cover

    Grasset, GRASSET

    May 10, 2001

  • Edition cover

    Grasset

    February 1, 1977

  • Edition cover

    Fayard/Pluriel

    2011-02

  • Edition cover

    Grasset

    1961

  • Edition cover

    Johns Hopkins Press

    1965

  • Edition cover

    Universidad Central de Venezuela

    1963

  • Edition cover

    Grasset

    1961

  • Edition cover

    Athlone Press

    December 2000

  • Edition cover

    Bernard Grasset

    1962

  • Edition cover

    Bernard Grasset

    1961

  • Edition cover

    Universidad Central de Venezuela

    1963