Balzac

V. S Pritchett

ISBN 10: 039448357X / ISBN 13: 9780394483573

Edité par Knopf; [distributed by Random House] January 1973, 1973

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Name stamp inside cover, magic marker streak to FFE, else tight and clean. DJ shows minor edgewear.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Balzac
• Éditeur: Knopf; [distributed by Random House] January 1973
• Date de parution: 1973
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 039448357X
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780394483573
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Illustrateur: Illustrated
• Édition: 1st Edition.
• État de l'article: Very Good
• État de la jaquette: Near Fine
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • 6-LITERARY CRITICISM

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Balzac was one of the founding geniuses among the world's great novelists. V. S. Pritchett presents a life-size portrait of the man inside the artist, the exuberant, uncouth provincial who combined encyclopaedic knowledge with the life of an exhibitionist and a would-be dandy, a gourmet, a disastrous financial speculator, a successful pursuer of aristocratic women, a born salesman and an untiring traveller. Yet, with some truth, Balzac called himself a monk, working his sixteen hours a day and keeping going on an ocean of strong coffee. When he died, he left the huge monument of the Com-die Humaine, an unsurpassed picture of French society from the rise and fall of Napoleon until the revolution of 1848.