Balzac's Lives

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Peter Brooks

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Enter the mind of French literary giant Honore de Balzac with this groundbreaking biography that illuminates the writer's life and era through close study of the unforgettable characters and places in Balzac's expansive and inimitable works. Enter the mind of French literary giant Honore de Balzac through a study of nine of his greatest characters and the novels they inhabit.Balzac's Livesilluminates the writer's life, era, and work in a completely original way. Balzac, more than anyone, invented the nineteenth-century novel, and Oscar Wilde went so far as to say that Balzac had invented the nineteenth century. But it was above all through the wonderful, unforgettable, extravagant characters that Balzac dreamed up and made flesh-entrepreneurs, bankers, inventors, industrialists, poets, artists, bohemians of both sexes, journalists, aristocrats, politicians, prostitutes-that he brought to life the dynamic forces of an era that ushered in our own. Peter Brooks's Balzac's Lives is a vivid and searching portrait of a great novelist as revealed through the fictional lives he imagined.

Author Biography:

Peter Brooks has been teaching and writing about Honore de Balzac for many years. Among his books are the nonfiction volumes The Melodramatic Imagination, Reading for the Plot, Psychoanalysis and Storytelling, Troubling Confessions, Realist Vision, Henry James Goes to Paris, and Flaubert in the Ruins of Paris, as well as two novels, World Elsewhere and The Emperor's Body. In 2014 Brooks edited a collection of Balzac's stories for New York Review Books, The Human Comedy- Selected Stories. He is the Sterling Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature at Yale.

Release date Australia

October 6th, 2020

Author

Peter Brooks

Pages

304

Audience

General (US: Trade)

ISBN-13

9781681374499

Product ID

31695428

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