History in the Text: "Quatrevingt-treize" and the French Revolution (Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages)

The title of this study "e;History in the text"e; is an oxymoronic phrase, and by this, the main focus of the book is clear immediately. On the other hand, there still remains the question to what extent text and history are comparable. The author of this volume tries to answer this by discussing the famous novel of Victor Hugo Quatrevingt-Treize against the background of the French Revolution.