Balzac's Lives

by Peter Brooks

Book Overview

Enter the mind of French literary giant Honor 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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1681374498
• ISBN13: 9781681374499
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: New York Review of Books
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.4"