Honoré de Balzac

by Peter Brooks

Overview

A book on the experience of reading Honoré de Balzac's La Comédie humaine which recounts the process of Peter Brooks's own discovery of Balzac. A personal account of coming to terms with Balzac: moving from more classical and restrained authors to the highly-coloured melodramatic novels of the Human Comedy, which give us the dynamics of a new and challenging world on the threshold of modernity. This volume shows readers how to read, and to love reading, Balzac, and how to engage with his vast work.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780192662095
Publisher:	OUP Oxford
Publication date:	07/28/2022
Series:	My Reading
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	172
File size:	452 KB

About the Author

Peter Brooks has taught mainly at Yale University, where he is Sterling Professor of Comparative Literature Emeritus; he has held positions also at the University of Virginia, Princeton University, the universities of Oxford, Bologna, and Copenhagen.

Table of Contents

1. Balzac: Reading for More2. Fangs and Kisses3. Making Books, Devouring Presses4. The Shape of Time5. To Say Everything

Editorial Reviews

"Brooks never ceases to intrigue readers by his deeply probing work of literary and critical scholarship." — Dana Vuckovic, French Studies

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