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Deceit, Desire, and the Novel

René Girard

Examines the novel based on an altruistic hero who dies, through a description of five novelists.

GenresFictionHistory and criticismDesire in literatureFiction in European languages1605- ca 1920Special themes

318 pages

English edition · First published 1976 by Johns Hopkins University Press · ISBN 9780801802201

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