Seeing Albertine Seeing: Barbey and Proust Through Balzac

The three texts, Balzac's La Fille aux yeux d'or , Barbey d'Aurevilly's Le Rideau cramoisi , and Proust's La Prisonnière , share two structuring themes: the problematic eyes of a woman who desires, and the need to see the woman in order to learn her truth. This article fi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dorothy Kelly
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: New Prairie Press 1990-06-01
Series:Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Online Access:http://newprairiepress.org/sttcl/vol14/iss2/2