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Balzac's Paris

- The City as Human Comedy

  • Format
  • E-bog, ePub
  • Engelsk
  • 208 sider
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In Balzac's vast Human Comedy, a body of ninety-one completed novels and stories, he endeavoured to create a complete picture of contemporary French society and manners. Within this work is a loving ode to Paris and an incomparable introduction to the first capital of the modern world.To this ageless city he makes a declaration of love in an accumulation of finely observed detail - the caf,s, landmarks, avenues, parks - and captures the populace in countless meticulously drawn portraits: its lawyers, grisettes, journalists, concierges, usurers, salesmen, speculators.Balzac gathered the elements of this Paris by sauntering through it. 'To saunter is a science,' he writes, 'it is the gastronomy of the eye. To take a walk is to vegetate; to saunter is to live.' Eric Hazan follows in Balzac's footsteps, criss-crossing the city in the novelist's outsize boots, running between printers, publishers, coffee merchants, mistresses and friends, stopping for a moment, struck by a detail that would be fixed in Balzac's photographic memory.More than a tour of the city, Balzac's Paris is an attempt to measure the soul of a city as recovered in its finest literature.

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Detaljer
  • SprogEngelsk
  • Sidetal208
  • Udgivelsesdato25-06-2024
  • ISBN139781839767272
  • Forlag Verso
  • FormatePub

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