Balzac's Paris (eBook)

The City as Human Comedy

Eric Hazan (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2024 | Ebook UK & RoW
208 Seiten
Verso (Verlag)
978-1-83976-727-2 (ISBN)

Infos

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 caf,s, 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.6.2024
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseführer
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• Schlagworte: Balzac • Eric Hazan • France • French Literature • Nineteenth century • Paris
• ISBN-10: 1-83976-727-8 / 1839767278
• ISBN-13: 978-1-83976-727-2 / 9781839767272