The Human Comedy: Selected Stories (New York Review Books

The Human Comedy: Selected Stories (New York Review Books Classics)

An NYRB Classics Original

Characters from every corner of society and all walks of lifeâ‚¬"lords and ladies, businessmen and military men, poor clerks,Â unforgiving moneylenders, aspiring politicians, artists, actresses, swindlers, misers, parasites, sexual adventurers, crackpots,Â and moreâ‚¬"move through the pages of The Human Comedy, Balzacâ‚¬s multivolume magnum opus, an interlinked chronicle of modernity in all its splendor and squalor. The Human Comedy includes the great roomy novels that have exercised such a sway over Balzacâ‚¬s many literary inheritors, from Dostoyevsky and Henry James to Marcel Proust; it also contains an array of short fictions in which Balzac is at his most concentrated and forceful. Nine of these, all newly translated, appear in this volume, and together they provide an unequaled overview of a great writerâ‚¬s obsessions and art. Here are â‚¬Å“The Duchesse de Langeais,â‚¬Â â‚¬Å“A Passion in the Desert,â‚¬Â and â‚¬Å“Sarrasineâ‚¬Â; tales of madness, illicit passion, ill-gotten gains, and crime. What unifies them, Peter Brooks points out in his introduction, is an incomparable storytellerâ‚¬s fascination with the power of storytelling, while throughout we also detect what Proust so admired: the â‚¬Å“mysterious circulation of blood and desire.â‚¬Â
Country USA
Brand New York Review Books
Manufacturer NYRB Classics
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9781590176641
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2014-01-21
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781590176641

Country	USA
Brand	New York Review Books
Manufacturer	NYRB Classics
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9781590176641
Color	Multicolor
ReleaseDate	2014-01-21
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781590176641

The Human Comedy: Selected Stories (New York Review Books Classics)

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