GENRE NATURE IN H. DE BALZAC’S NOVEL «LILY IN THE VALLEY»
Abstract
The article considers the problem of the genre of the novel «Lily in the Valley», that combines the features of the confessional and the epistolary novel. Balzac’s novel is explored as a personal novel, the study reveals the similarity and difference form works of Senancour, Constant, Chateaubriand. The paper shows how Balzac uses widespread in romantic literature plot-compositional scheme and transforming it comes to a new type of narrative. The paper explored the relationship between the author and the protagonist, attention was also paid to the system of the characters and the issue of the relevance of a «Lily in the valley» to the cycle «the Human Comedy».
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