Honoré de Balzac

by Peter Brooks

A book on the experience of reading Honor de Balzac's La Com die 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192846701
• ISBN13: 9780192846709
• Release Date: November 2022
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.7" x 8.5"