Honoré de Balzac

Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-0-19-899448-0
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 176 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm

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.

This volume is 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. It shows readers how to read, and to love reading, Balzac, and how to engage with his vast work.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brooks, Peter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: Balzac: Reading for More

- 2: Fangs and Kisses

- 3: Making Books, Devouring Presses

- 4: The Shape of Time

- 5: To Say Everything

- Acknowledgements

- Further Reading

- Notes

- Index

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.