The House in Paris

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The House in Paris is a 1935 modernist novel by Elizabeth Bowen that intricately explores memory, identity, and emotional tension through the intersecting lives of two children and the adults around them during a single day in a Parisian house.

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instanceOf modernist novel
novel
author Elizabeth Bowen NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
depicts childhood perception of adult secrets
illicit love affair
social constraints in early 20th-century Europe
featuresCharacter Henrietta NERFINISHED
Karen Michaelis NERFINISHED
Leopold NERFINISHED
Madame Fisher NERFINISHED
Miss Fisher NERFINISHED
Naomi Fisher NERFINISHED
firstPublicationPlace London NERFINISHED
genre literary fiction
modernist fiction
psychological fiction
hasLiteraryForm prose
hasPageCountApprox 300
hasPart Past section
Present section
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hasReception considered one of Elizabeth Bowen's major works
critically acclaimed
hasSubject emotional repression
illegitimacy
mother–child relationships
social class
literaryMovement modernism
literaryPeriod interwar literature
mainTheme betrayal
emotional tension
family relationships
identity
memory
secrecy
narrativePerspective shifting point of view
narrativeTimeSpan single day
notableFor complex temporal structure
detailed interior monologue
intense psychological characterization
originalLanguage English
publicationYear 1935
publisher Victor Gollancz Ltd NERFINISHED
settingLocation Paris
structure framed narrative
nonlinear narrative
timePeriodDepicted early 20th century

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