Resumen de Réalisme et ironie, les voies de la parole dans Dubliners
Bakhtin's remark that the main object of the novel is speaking man and his speech must be nuanced to apply to the 19th century realist novel. Indeed, the development of representation of speech goes hand in hand with increasing wariness about language in general and individual utterances in particular — as exemplified i)i Flaubert's Dictionary of Received Ideas. If the effacement of authorial voice both depends and opens out on irony, its price may be the renunciation of poetry — as foyce's DubMnexs show.
