Balzac's Paris (häftad)
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Format
Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
208
Utgivningsdatum
2024-06-25
Förlag
Verso Books
Originalspråk
Franska
Dimensioner
213 x 145 x 20 mm
Vikt
295 g
ISBN
9781839767258

Balzac's Paris

The City as Human Comedy

av Eric Hazan, Eric Hazan
Inbunden,  Engelska, 2024-06-25
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In Balzac's vast Human Comedy, 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. 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. 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. More than a tour of the city, Balzac's Paris is an attempt to measure the soul of a city as recovered in its finest literature.
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Eric Hazan is the founder of the publisher La Fabrique and the author of several books, including the highly acclaimed The Invention of Paris. He has lived in Paris, France, all his life.

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