Author: Honoré de Balzac
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 632
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The Works of Honoré de Balzac
Author: Honoré de Balzac
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 632
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 632
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The Novels of Honoré de Balzac: Scenes of private life
Author: Honoré de Balzac
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 568
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 568
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The Best of Balzac
Author: Honoré de Balzac
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Category : Fiction, French
Languages : en
Pages : 338
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Category : Fiction, French
Languages : en
Pages : 338
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Balzac's Lives
Author: Peter Brooks
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1681374498
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Enter the mind of French literary giant Honoré 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.
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1681374498
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Enter the mind of French literary giant Honoré 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.
The Misfit of the Family
Author: Michael Lucey
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822385163
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
In more than ninety novels and novellas, Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) created a universe teeming with over two thousand characters. The Misfit of the Family reveals how Balzac, in imagining the dense, vividly rendered social world of his novels, used his writing as a powerful means to understand and analyze—as well as represent—a range of forms of sexuality. Moving away from the many psychoanalytic approaches to the novelist's work, Michael Lucey contends that in order to grasp the full complexity with which sexuality was understood by Balzac, it is necessary to appreciate how he conceived of its relation to family, history, economics, law, and all the many structures within which sexualities take form. The Misfit of the Family is a compelling argument that Balzac must be taken seriously as a major inventor and purveyor of new tools for analyzing connections between the sexual and the social. Lucey’s account of the novelist’s deployment of "sexual misfits" to impel a wide range of his most canonical works—Cousin Pons, Cousin Bette, Eugenie Grandet, Lost Illusions, The Girl with the Golden Eyes—demonstrates how even the flexible umbrella term "queer" barely covers the enormous diversity of erotic and social behaviors of his characters. Lucey draws on the thinking of Michel Foucault and Pierre Bourdieu and engages the work of critics of nineteenth-century French fiction, including Naomi Schor, D. A. Miller, Franco Moretti, and others. His reflections on Proust as Balzac’s most cannily attentive reader suggest how the lines of social and erotic force he locates in Balzac’s work continued to manifest themselves in twentieth-century writing and society.
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822385163
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
In more than ninety novels and novellas, Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) created a universe teeming with over two thousand characters. The Misfit of the Family reveals how Balzac, in imagining the dense, vividly rendered social world of his novels, used his writing as a powerful means to understand and analyze—as well as represent—a range of forms of sexuality. Moving away from the many psychoanalytic approaches to the novelist's work, Michael Lucey contends that in order to grasp the full complexity with which sexuality was understood by Balzac, it is necessary to appreciate how he conceived of its relation to family, history, economics, law, and all the many structures within which sexualities take form. The Misfit of the Family is a compelling argument that Balzac must be taken seriously as a major inventor and purveyor of new tools for analyzing connections between the sexual and the social. Lucey’s account of the novelist’s deployment of "sexual misfits" to impel a wide range of his most canonical works—Cousin Pons, Cousin Bette, Eugenie Grandet, Lost Illusions, The Girl with the Golden Eyes—demonstrates how even the flexible umbrella term "queer" barely covers the enormous diversity of erotic and social behaviors of his characters. Lucey draws on the thinking of Michel Foucault and Pierre Bourdieu and engages the work of critics of nineteenth-century French fiction, including Naomi Schor, D. A. Miller, Franco Moretti, and others. His reflections on Proust as Balzac’s most cannily attentive reader suggest how the lines of social and erotic force he locates in Balzac’s work continued to manifest themselves in twentieth-century writing and society.
Cousin Betty
Author: Honore de Balzac
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3734084148
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Cousin Betty by Honore de Balzac
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3734084148
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Cousin Betty by Honore de Balzac
The seamy side of history
Author: Honoré de Balzac
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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Languages : en
Pages : 328
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Balzac
Author: Graham Robb
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393313871
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 622
Book Description
A portrait of the self-destructive French novelist follows Balzac's early literary disappointments, impractical money-making schemes, love affairs, correspondences, and achievements.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393313871
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 622
Book Description
A portrait of the self-destructive French novelist follows Balzac's early literary disappointments, impractical money-making schemes, love affairs, correspondences, and achievements.
The 30-Year-Old Woman
Author: Honore De Balzac
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781093125924
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
How even a desired and socially brilliant marriage can lead a young girl to misfortune. How a young mother resists an adulterous passion, but sinks into grief. How a young woman in all the splendour of her maturity rediscovers the taste for love and then finds herself punished in the tragic fate of her own children. That's the plot of the novel.
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781093125924
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
How even a desired and socially brilliant marriage can lead a young girl to misfortune. How a young mother resists an adulterous passion, but sinks into grief. How a young woman in all the splendour of her maturity rediscovers the taste for love and then finds herself punished in the tragic fate of her own children. That's the plot of the novel.
La comédie humaine
Author: Honoré de Balzac
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1065
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1065
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