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Peter Brooks Balzac's Lives (Paperback)
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- Book Title
- Balzac's Lives
- Publication Name
- Balzac's Lives
- Title
- Balzac's Lives
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- EAN
- 9781681374499
- ISBN
- 9781681374499
- Publisher
- New York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism, History
- Release Year
- 2020
- Release Date
- 06/10/2020
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.9in
- Item Length
- 8.4in
- Publication Year
- 2020
- Topic
- European / French, Europe / France, Literary
- Item Width
- 5.7in
- Item Weight
- 13.5 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 280 Pages
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Enter the mind of French literary giant Honor de Balzac through a study of nine of his greatest characters and the novels they inhabit. Balzac's Lives illuminates 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.
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Publisher
New York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
1681374498
ISBN-13
9781681374499
eBay Product ID (ePID)
21038809155
Product Key Features
Book Title
Balzac's Lives
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
European / French, Europe / France, Literary
Publication Year
2020
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism, History
Number of Pages
280 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.4in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
5.7in
Item Weight
13.5 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pq2184.C5b76 2020
Reviews
"At the heart of Peter Brooks's new book on Balzac--a culminating achievement--lies an intense competition between two opposite kinds of writing: Criticism and the Novel. The author's goal--to show us how Balzac's Human Comedy makes sense of human and social nature--belongs to Criticism, but his means--writing biographies of Balzac's characters, mere figments of imagination--are pure Novel. Though these twice-told tales are amply interleaved with critical and social context, narrative analysis and psychoanalytic insight, the contest between critical reading and novelistic telling hardly ends in a draw. Brooks not only likes a good story, he knows how to tell one, expert in retracing even the most tortuous paths of Balzac's human comedians. The inordinate, almost fierce energy that animates every line here is the passion of a storyteller--that primal passion for staging twists and turns of plot, for entering and projecting into imaginary lives, for using these lives to reflect on love, sex, money, power, identity. Small wonder Peter Brooks teaches us so much in Balzac's Lives ; he's learned Balzac's lesson." --D.A. MIller "Peter Brooks's entire body of work has been devoted to finding a way of talking about literature that is analytically rigorous but lucid, eloquent, rigorous, "useful" (one of his favorite words), and--in the best sense--social. Balzac's Lives is the brilliant culmination of his approach. I found this world-besotted book--especially now, self-quarantined as we are--immensely moving." --David Shields "Anyone interested in Balzac should pounce on this book, at once erudite and wonderfully readable, and keep it close at hand. Peter Brooks displays in these pages a dizzying knowledge of his work. Through the life of various characters, he leads the reader towards an unusual biography of the novelist for whom the world he invented was more real than life. It takes a steady hand to guide one into Balzac's vast and complicated world and make sense of a passionate and complex man. Peter Brooks provides it with ease and elegance." --Anka Muhlstein
Copyright Date
2020
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2020-016060
Dewey Decimal
843.7
Dewey Edition
23
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