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Balzac's Paris: The City as Human Comedy
Exploring Paris arm in arm with Balzac, nineteenth-century France's most famous novelist and observer In Balzac's vast...
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Exploring Paris arm in arm with Balzac, nineteenth-century France's most famous novelist and observer 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.
Author: Eric Hazan
Publisher: Verso
Published: 06/25/2024
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
ISBN: 9781839767258
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 04/29/2024
About the Author
Eric Hazan is the founder of the publisher La Fabrique and the author of many books, including Paris in Turmoil, A Walk Through Paris, A People's History of the French Revolution, A History of the Barricade, Notes on the Occupation and the highly acclaimed The Invention of Paris. He has lived in Paris, France, all his life.
Author: Eric Hazan
Publisher: Verso
Published: 06/25/2024
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
ISBN: 9781839767258
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 04/29/2024
About the Author
Eric Hazan is the founder of the publisher La Fabrique and the author of many books, including Paris in Turmoil, A Walk Through Paris, A People's History of the French Revolution, A History of the Barricade, Notes on the Occupation and the highly acclaimed The Invention of Paris. He has lived in Paris, France, all his life.
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