Balzac Honore De - The Human Comedy - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: An NYRB Classics Original 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.
Title: The Human Comedy
Author(s): Balzac Honore De
Publisher: The New York Review Of Books Inc
Barcode: 9781590176641
Pages: 464 Pages
Publication Date: 1/21/2014
Category: Short Stories