Bernstein, Michael André, 1947- Bitter carnival : : ressentiment and the abject hero / [electronic resource] / Michael André Bernstein.. — Princeton, N.J. : : Princeton University Press,, c1992.. — 243 p. ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-234) and index.

Introduction : murder and the Utopian movement -- I wear not motley in my brain : slaves, fools, and abject heroes -- O totiens servus : Horace, Juvenal, and the classical Saturnalia -- Oui, monsieur le philosophe : Diderot's Le neveu de Rameau -- Lacerations : the novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky -- L'Apocalypse à crédit : Louis-Ferdinand Céline's war trilogy -- These children that come at you with knives : Charles Manson and the modern Saturnalia.



ISBN: 0691069395 (alk. paper) : $29.95 9780691069395 (alk. paper)

LCCN: 91025871

Nat. Bib. No.: GB92-44539

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Abjection in literature.
Heroes in literature.
Cynicism in literature.
Literature, Comparative--Themes, motives.
Verstotenen.
Ressentiment.

Subjects--Index Terms: Literature Special subjects Psychology

LC Class. No.: PN56.A23 / B4 1992

Dewey Class. No.: 809/.93353