Honoré de Balzac

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-0-19-284670-9
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 162 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 136 mm x 219 mm, Gewicht: 318 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brooks, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: Balzac: Reading for More

- 2: Fangs and Kisses

- 3: Making Books, Devouring Presses

- 4: The Shape of Time

- 5: To Say Everything

Über Autor(innen)

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.