The Model and the Masterpiece (Balzac and his followers)

Balzac’s short story “The Unknown Masterpiece” (“Le Chef-d’œuvre inconnu”) is one of his most commented works. This essay offers a new reading of the story by correlating the narrative structures of the text with the deforming effect these structures produce on the visual artifact (the painting) fea...

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Main Author: Sergey N. Zenkin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences 2018-03-01
Series:Studia Litterarum
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Online Access:http://studlit.ru/images/2018-3-1/Zenkin.pdf