Characters from every corner of society and all walks of life-lords
and ladies, businessmen and military men, poor clerks, unforgiving
moneylenders, aspiring politicians, artists, actresses, swindlers,
misers, parasites, sexual adventurers, crackpots, and more-move
through the pages of The Human Comedy, Balzac's multivolume magnum
opus, an interlinked chronicle of modernity in all its splendor and
squalor. The Human Comedy includes the great roomy novels that have
exercised such a sway over Balzac's many literary inheritors, from
Dostoyevsky and Henry James to Marcel Proust; it also contains an
array of short fictions in which Balzac is at his most concentrated
and forceful. Nine of these, all newly translated, appear in this
volume, and together they provide an unequaled overview of a great
writer's obsessions and art. Here are "The Duchesse de Langeais,"
"A Passion in the Desert," and "Sarrasine"; tales of madness,
illicit passion, ill-gotten gains, and crime. What unifies them,
Peter Brooks points out in his introduction, is an incomparable
storyteller's fascination with the power of storytelling, while
throughout we also detect what Proust so admired: the "mysterious
circulation of blood and desire."
General
Imprint: |
Nyrb Classics
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
February 2014 |
First published: |
2014 |
Authors: |
Honore De Balzac
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Dimensions: |
203 x 128 x 25mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
|
Pages: |
428 |
Edition: |
Main |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-59017-664-1 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
Special features >
Short stories
|
LSN: |
1-59017-664-2 |
Barcode: |
9781590176641 |
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