Honoré de Balzac / Peter Brooks.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brooks, Peter, author.

Series:

Oxford Academic.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Novelists, French--19th century--Biography.

Novelists, French.

Authors, French--19th century--Biography.

Authors, French.

Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850.

Balzac, Honoré de.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (176 pages) : illustrations (colour).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2022]

Summary:

A personal account of coming to terms with Balzac: how I moved from more classical and restrained authors (Stendhal, Laclos) to the highly-coloured melodramatic novels of The Human Comedy, which give us the dynamics of a new and challenging world on the threshold of modernity. "The father of us all," Henry James called Balzac. This is a book about how to read Balzac, to love reading him, and to engage his vast work.

Contents:

1. Balzac: Reading for More

2. Fangs and Kisses

3. Writing, Talking, Devouring Presses

4. The Shape of Time

5. To Say Everything

Acknowledgments

Further Reading

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on Publisher website; title from home page (viewed on June 03, 2022).

ISBN:

0-19-266209-0

0-19-266208-2

0-19-196455-7

OCLC:

1393303331