Opera in the Novel from Balzac to ProustThe turning point of Madame Bovary, which Flaubert memorably set at the opera, is only the most famous example of a surprisingly long tradition, one common to a range of French literary styles and sub genres. In the first book length study of that tradition to appear in English, Cormac Newark examines representations of operatic performance from Balzac's La Com die humaine to Proust's la recherche du temps perdu, by way of (among others) Dumas p re's