The long and short of the novel -- Making short long : short story cycles -- Remaking the novel -- Trinitarian unity -- Proust's reader
Summary
Pasco analyzes innovative nineteenth- and twentieth-century French works to suggest a definition of the novel, in all of its variations and difficulties: a relatively long, artistically designed, prose fiction. He permits literary aficionados to reevaluate novels through comparisons with other genres and both recent and former traditions
