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Balzac's Paris
- The City as Human Comedy
Engelsk Hardback
Balzac's Paris
- The City as Human Comedy
Engelsk Hardback

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In Balzac’s vast <i>Human Comedy</i>, 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.<br><br>To this ageless city he makes a declaration of love in an accumulation of finely observed detail – the cafés, landmarks, avenues, parks – and captures the populace in countless meticulously drawn portraits: its lawyers, grisettes, journalists, concierges, usurers, salesmen, speculators.<br><br>Balzac gathered the elements of this Paris by sauntering through it. ‘To saunter is a science,’ he writes, ‘it is the gastronomy of the eye. To take a walk is to vegetate; to saunter is to live.’ Eric Hazan follows in Balzac’s footsteps, criss-crossing the city in the novelist’s outsize boots, running between printers, publishers, coffee merchants, mistresses and friends, stopping for a moment, struck by a detail that would be fixed in Balzac’s photographic memory.<br><br>More than a tour of the city, <i>Balzac’s Paris</i> is an attempt to measure the soul of a city as recovered in its finest literature.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
208
ISBN-13:
9781839767258
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1839767251
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
25 jun 2024
Længde:
20mm
Bredde:
149mm
Højde:
219mm
Forlag:
Verso Books
Oplagsdato:
25 jun 2024
Forfatter(e):
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