A Change of Heart (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Michel Butor
- First Published: 1957
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: 1955 or 1956
- Setting: A train traveling between Paris and Rome
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: 1950’s, Self-discovery, Memory, Traveling or travelers, Love or romance, Paris, Adultery, Trains, Rome
- Locales: Europe
Characters Discussed
Léon Delmont (lay-AHN dehl-MOHN), the director of the Paris office of the Scabelli typewriter company. He is successful and well off, but at forty-five years of age, his hair is getting thin and gray. He is a smoker and wears tan shoes and a luminous watch with a purple leather watchband. He is intellectual and anticlerical (he readsLetters of Julian the Apostate on the train) and has strong views about what is good and bad art. He is concerned about his family’s material welfare, but his relationship with his wife has gone sour, and he yearns for...
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