The human comedy : selected stories / Honoré de Balzac ; edited and with an introduction by Peter Brooks ; translated from the French by Linda Asher, Carol Cosman, Jordan Stump.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850.

Contributor:

Brooks, Peter, 1938- editor.

Asher, Linda, translator.

Cosman, Carol, translator.

Stump, Jordan, 1959- translator.

Series:

New York Review Books classics

New York Review Books Classics

Standardized Title:

Comédie humaine. Selections. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850--Translations into English.

Balzac, Honoré de.

Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850.

France--Social life and customs--19th century--Fiction.

France.

Manners and customs.

Genre:

Fiction.

Short stories, French.

Physical Description:

xxi, 428 pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York Review Books, [2014]

Language Note:

Translated from the French.

Summary:

"We think of Honore Balzac as the author of long and fully upholstered novels, stitched together into the magnificent visionary document called The Human Comedy. Yet along with the full-length fiction within The Human Comedy stand many shorter works, and it's here that we get some of his most daring explorations of crime, sexuality, and artistic creation. As Marcel Proust noted, it is in these tales that we detect, under the surface, the mysterious circulation of blood and desire. All are newly translated by three outstanding translators who restore the freshness of Balzac's vivid and highly colored prose"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Facino Cane

Another study of womankind

The red inn

Sarrasine

A passion in the desert

Adieu

Z. Marcas

Gobseck

The Duchesse de Langeais.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Translation of: Comédie humaine (selections).

ISBN:

9781590176641

1590176642

9781590176986

1590176987

OCLC:

841229362

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