Flaubert and Faulkner: mourning the counterfactual by Benoît, R

“…<p>This thesis offers the first extensive comparison between the work of Gustave Flaubert and William Faulkner. It is a study not only of the stylistic parallels of their texts, but also of two periods in time: the cultures of defeat that marked France after the events of 1848 and their aftermath, and the American South in the wake of the Civil War. …”