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Balzac's Lives

2020-10-06 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2020-10-06
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis Balzac's Lives by : Peter Brooks

Download or read book Balzac's Lives written by Peter Brooks. This book was released on 2020-10-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enter the mind of French literary giant Honoré de Balzac through a study of nine of his greatest characters and the novels they inhabit. Balzac's Lives illuminates the writer's life, era, and work in a completely original way. Balzac, more than anyone, invented the nineteenth-century novel, and Oscar Wilde went so far as to say that Balzac had invented the nineteenth century. But it was above all through the wonderful, unforgettable, extravagant characters that Balzac dreamed up and made flesh—entrepreneurs, bankers, inventors, industrialists, poets, artists, bohemians of both sexes, journalists, aristocrats, politicians, prostitutes—that he brought to life the dynamic forces of an era that ushered in our own. Peter Brooks’s Balzac’s Lives is a vivid and searching portrait of a great novelist as revealed through the fictional lives he imagined.

Balzac's Omelette

2012-02-14 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2012-02-14
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis Balzac's Omelette by : Anka Muhlstein

Download or read book Balzac's Omelette written by Anka Muhlstein. This book was released on 2012-02-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Tell me where you eat, what you eat, and at what time you eat, and I will tell you who you are. ”This is the motto of Anka Muhlstein’s erudite and witty book about the ways food and the art of the table feature in Honoré de Balzac’s The Human Comedy. Balzac uses them as a connecting thread in his novels, showing how food can evoke character, atmosphere, class, and social climbing more suggestively than money, appearances, and other more conventional trappings. Full of surprises and insights, Balzac’s Omelet invites you to taste anew Balzac’s genius as a writer and his deep understanding of the human condition, its ambitions, its flaws, and its cravings.

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

2001 China
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Release : 2001
Genre : China
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Book Synopsis Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by : Sijie Dai

Download or read book Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress written by Sijie Dai. This book was released on 2001. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An enchanting literary debut—already an international best-seller. At the height of Mao’s infamous Cultural Revolution, two boys are among hundreds of thousands exiled to the countryside for “re-education.” The narrator and his best friend, Luo, guilty of being the sons of doctors, find themselves in a remote village where, among the peasants of Phoenix mountain, they are made to cart buckets of excrement up and down precipitous winding paths. Their meager distractions include a violin—as well as, before long, the beautiful daughter of the local tailor. But it is when the two discover a hidden stash of Western classics in Chinese translation that their re-education takes its most surprising turn. While ingeniously concealing their forbidden treasure, the boys find transit to worlds they had thought lost forever. And after listening to their dangerously seductive retellings of Balzac, even the Little Seamstress will be forever transformed. From within the hopelessness and terror of one of the darkest passages in human history, Dai Sijie has fashioned a beguiling and unexpected story about the resilience of the human spirit, the wonder of romantic awakening and the magical power of storytelling.

Balzac

1995 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 1995
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis Balzac by : Graham Robb

Download or read book Balzac written by Graham Robb. This book was released on 1995. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A portrait of the self-destructive French novelist follows Balzac's early literary disappointments, impractical money-making schemes, love affairs, correspondences, and achievements.

Comédie Humaine

1896
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Release : 1896
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Book Synopsis Comédie Humaine by : Honoré de Balzac

Download or read book Comédie Humaine written by Honoré de Balzac. This book was released on 1896. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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