The Human Comedy
Selected Stories
New York : New York Review Books, [2014]
Format: Book
Description: xxi, 428 pages ; 21 cm.
"We think of Honore Balzac as the author of long and fully upholstered novels, stitched together into the magnificent visionary document called The Human Comedy. Yet along with the full-length fiction within The Human Comedy stand many shorter works, and it's here that we get some of his most daring explorations of crime, sexuality, and artistic creation. As Marcel Proust noted, it is in these tales that we detect, under the surface, the mysterious circulation of blood and desire. All are newly translated by three outstanding translators who restore the freshness of Balzac's vivid and highly colored prose"--
Series: New York Review Books classics.
Other Authors:
Brooks, Peter, 1938- editor, author of introduction.
Asher, Linda, translator.
Cosman, Carol, translator.
Stump, Jordan, 1959- translator.
Brooks, Peter, 1938- editor, author of introduction.
Asher, Linda, translator.
Cosman, Carol, translator.
Stump, Jordan, 1959- translator.
Contents:
Facino Cane -- Another study of womankind -- The red inn -- Sarrasine -- A passion in the desert -- Adieu -- Z. Marcas -- Gobseck -- The Duchesse de Langeais.
Subjects:
Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850 -- Translations into English.
Short stories, French.
FICTION / Short Stories (single author)
FICTION / Classics.
FICTION / Psychological.
France -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction.
Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850 -- Translations into English.
Short stories, French.
FICTION / Short Stories (single author)
FICTION / Classics.
FICTION / Psychological.
France -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9781590176641 (paperback)
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
F Balzac | Southeast | Fiction | In |
Translation of: Comédie humaine (selections).
Includes bibliographical references.
Translated from the French.
Includes bibliographical references.
Translated from the French.