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1	Trains of Thought: Paris to Omaha Beach, Memories of a Wartime Youth more books like this by Victor Brombert Paris in the 1930s provides the poetic beginning for this autobiography by one of America's most renowned literary scholars. Victor Brombert recaptures the story of his youth in a Proustian reverie - his protective mother, his first ill-fated romantic liaisons, his passionate love of trains - that vividly recalls his privileged upbringing in Paris ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.59! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Stendhal; a collection of critical essays. more books like this by Victor H. Brombert (Editor) see all copies from $1.99! first editions
3	Emilio's Carnival: Senilita by Italo Svevo, Victor Brombert (Introduction by), Beth Archer Brombert (Translator) Italo Svevo's early novel Senilita (1898) remained unknown for many years until James Joyce encountered the novelist in Trieste and came to admire Senilita as a preeminent modern Italian novel. Joyee helped to launch Svevo's career, and years later Svevo achieved great fame with his masterpiece, Confessions of Zeno. In Senilita, Svevo tells the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.57! \| first editions
4	Victor Hugo and the Visionary Novel more books like this by Victor Brombert Victor Brombert reassesses in a modern perspective the power and originality of Hugo's work, and provides a new interpretation of Hugo's narrative art as well as a synthesis of his poetic and moral vision. The twenty-eight drawings by Hugo reproduced in this book are further testimony to the visionary nature of Hugo's imagination. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $46.54! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	The intellectual hero; studies in the French novel, 1880-1955 more books like this by Victor H Brombert see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
6	In Praise of Antiheroes: Figures and Themes in Modern European Literature, 1830-1980 more books like this by Victor Brombert Through critical readings of key works of modern European literature, Victor Brombert shows how a new kind of hero - the antihero - has arisen to replace the toppled heroic model. Though they fail, by design, to live up to conventional expectations of mythic heroes, antiheroes are not necessarily "failures." They display different kinds of courage ... see all copies from $5.50! new only from $14.82! \| signed copies \| first editions
7	The Novels of Flaubert: A Study of Themes & Techniques more books like this by Victor H. Brombert see all copies from $6.99! signed copies \| first editions
8	The Hidden Reader: Stendhal, Balzac, Hugo, Baudelaire, Flaubert more books like this by Victor Brombert Victor Brombert is an unrivaled interpreter of French literature; and the writers he considers in this latest book are ones with whom he has a long acqualntance. These essays--eleven of them appearing in English for the first time and some totally new--give us an acute analysis of the major figures of the nineteenth century and a splendid lesson ... see all copies from $6.99! new only from $43.00!
9	Silbermann more books like this by Jacques de Lacretelle, Victor Brombert, Jaques de Lacretelle "Silbermann" is a beautiful but painful book . . . it is about the difficult ties of adolescent friendship in the midst of the cruelty of a group, the tensions between children and their parents and the themes of sincerity, bad faith and self-deceit. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.79! \| signed copies \| SVS
10	Stendhal: fiction and the themes of freedom more books like this by Victor Brombert see all copies from $1.99! first editions
11	Stendhal (Twentieth Century Interpretations) by Victor Brombert see all copies from $1.99! first editions
12	The hero in literature more books like this by Victor H. Brombert (Compiled by) see all copies from $1.99!
13	The Romantic Prison: The French Tradition more books like this by Victor Brombert see all copies from $4.30! new only from $79.94!
14	Flaubert more books like this by Victor H. Brombert see all copies from $18.10! first editions
15	The criticism of T. S. Eliot; problems of an "impersonal theory" of poetry more books like this by Victor H. Brombert see all copies from $12.00! first editions
16	La prison romantique : essai sur l'imaginaire more books like this by Victor H. Brombert see all copies from $54.74!
17	Intellectual Hero: French Novel, 1880-1955 by Victor Brombert see all copies from $11.90!

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