Balzac's Shorter Fictions: Genesis and Genre

by Tim Farrant

Overview

Balzac's reputation is as a novelist. But short stories make up over half La Comédie humaine, besides scores of other tales and articles. Balzac's Shorter Fictions looks at the whole of this corpus, at the nature of short fiction, and at how Balzac's novels developed from his stories—at the links between literary genesis and genre.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198151975
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	04/25/2002
Pages:	368
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

The University of Oxford

Table of Contents

General Introduction1. Philosophies of Composition: From ‘Corsino' to the ‘Code des gens honnêttes', 1818-18252. From Code to Physiologie, 1826-18293. The First Scenes de la vie privée, 1829-18304. Narratives and Newspapers, 1829-18305. Balzac and the Literary Reviews, October 1830 - August 18316. From la Peau de chagrin to the Contes drolatiques, 1831-18327. Balzac, Roi de la Nouvelle: from the ‘Contes bruns' To ‘Le Curé de Tours' (1832)8. Another Destiny? From ‘Louis Lambert' to ‘Le Père Goriot', September 1832 - March 18359. Building the Cathedral, 1835-183810. Relative Values, 1838-183911. Roi des romanciers? Scenes, Satires, and Serials, 1839-184012. Towards the Comédie, 1840-184113. La Grrrrrrande Comédie, 1842-184514. Constellations and Supernovellas: ‘Nouvelle' And Novel, 1841-1844Conclusion;BibliographyIndex