Aphorism in the Francophone Novel of the Twentieth CenturyISBN: 9780773566392Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / McGill-Queen''s University PressDigital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: French literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Aphorisms and apothegms in literature; In this exploration of twentieth-century novels written in French, Mark Bell defines aphorism as a literary genre and demonstrates how it is used in seven texts that provide a cross-section of ideological stances and francophone communities.