Through a close reading of five major novelists -- Cervantes, Stendhal, Flaubert, Proust, and Dostoyevsky -- René Girard attempts to define the essence of a certain type of novel which he calls th…
"[Girard's] methods of extrapolating to find cultural history behind myths, and of reading hidden verification through silence, are worthy enrichments of the critic's arsenal."--John Yoder, 'Religi…