Subversions of VerisimilitudeSubversions of Verisimilitude focuses on the ways in which a number of French literary narratives written in the realist tradition show a dynamic balance between the desire of the author narrator to present a verisimilar world and the need for aesthetic balance. While the works studied narratives by Balzac, Flaubert, Zola, Colette, Proust, and Sartre range over the course of a century, from 1835 to 1938, they share a perspective on the relations