Balzac: A Biography - Couverture souple

Robb, Graham

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0393313875 ISBN 13 : 9780393313871

Editeur : WW Norton & Co, 1996

Synopsis

In the first major English biography of Honore de Balzac for over fifty years, Graham Robb has produced a compelling portrait of the great French novelist whose powers of creation were matched only by his self-destructive tendencies. As colorful as the world he described, Balzac is the perfect subject for biography: a relentless seducer whose successes were as spectacular as his catastrophes; a passionate collector, inventor, explorer, and political campaigner; a mesmerizing storyteller with the power to make his fantasies come true. Balzac's early life was a struggle against literary disappointment and poverty, and he learned his trade by writing a series of lurid commercial novels. Robb shows how Balzac's craving for wealth, fame, and happiness produced a series of hare-brained entrepreneurial schemes which took him to the remotest parts of Europe and into a love affair with a Polish countess whom he courted for fifteen years by correspondence. Out of these experiences emerged some of the finest novels in the Realist tradition. Skillfully interweaving the life with the novels, Robb presents Balzac as one of the great tragi-comic heroes of the nineteenth century, a man whose influence both in and outside his native France has been, and still is, immense.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Graham Robb is the author of several award-winning books on literature and history. His book The Discovery of France won both the Duff Cooper and Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prizes. For Parisians, the City of Paris awarded him the Grande Médaille de la Ville de Paris. He lives on the English-Scottish border.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: WW Norton & Co
• Date d'édition: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0393313875
• ISBN 13: 9780393313871
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 576
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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