Antoine de FURETIERE
Le roman bourgeois
Chez Jean-Baptiste Cusson|à Nancy 1712|9.50 x 16.50 cm|relié
New edition, illustrated with 6 unsigned figures. Title page in red and black. The first edition was published in 1666. Full speckled brown glazed calf binding. Spine with raised bands decorated. Fawn morocco title label. Head of spine split. One corner slightly bumped. Good copy.
Le Roman bourgeois is certainly, with Francion by Sorel, one of the most innovative works of the 17th century in terms of writing; it shares with Sorel the realistic and comic aspect. Furetière constructs his novel against fashionable novels, chivalric or pastoral romances, like L'Astrée; the work appears to be, in its fragmented narration, a true demonstration of the author's thinking on the novelist
Le Roman bourgeois is certainly, with Francion by Sorel, one of the most innovative works of the 17th century in terms of writing; it shares with Sorel the realistic and comic aspect. Furetière constructs his novel against fashionable novels, chivalric or pastoral romances, like L'Astrée; the work appears to be, in its fragmented narration, a true demonstration of the author's thinking on the novelist
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