Le Restaurant dans le roman naturaliste: narration et evaluation.(Book Review)

Publication: The Modern Language Review

Publication Date: 01-APR-04

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Le Restaurant dans le roman naturaliste: narration et evaluation. By JOELLE BONNIN-PONNIER. (Romantisme et modernites, 48) Paris: Champion. 2002. xii+577 pp. ISBN 2-7453-0528-x.

This work falls into two parts: the first, 'Restaurant et narration', examines plot and setting across a comprehensive range of authors; the second, 'Restaurant et evaluation', treats the restaurant as spectacle. Contemporary food guides and writers are cited to illuminate the ideological implications of eating out as interpreted by 'un narrateur pseudo-objectif' (p. 572), hidebound by the neutrality born...

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