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€œThe Duchesse de Langeais,â€ â€œA Passion in the Desert,â€ and â€œSarrasineâ€; 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€œmysterious circulation of blood and desire.â€
Country USA
Manufacturer NYRB Classics
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2014-01-21
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	NYRB Classics
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2014-01-21
Format	Kindle eBook

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

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