Balzac's Paris: The City as Human Comedy

by Eric Hazan

Book Overview

Exploring Paris arm in arm with Balzac, nineteenth-century France's most famous novelist and observer

In Balzac's vast Human Comedy, a body of ninety-one completed novels and stories, he endeavoured to create a complete picture of contemporary French society and manners. Within this work is a loving ode to Paris and an incomparable introduction to the first capital of the modern world.

To this ageless city he makes a declaration...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1839767251
• ISBN13: 9781839767258
• Release Date: June 2024
• Publisher: Verso
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.4"