Balzac

Balzac, Honore Heathcote, Owen: Balzac and Violence. Representing History, Space, Sexuality and Death in La Comedie humaine. (Frenchstudies of the 18. and 18. Centuries). Oxford, Bern, Berlin: Peter Lang Vlg. 2009. ISBN: 978-3-03910-551-9
Violence is one of the main themes in the novels of Honore de Balzac. Executions, murders, savagery and death accompany the conspiracies and the turbulence that characterise his post-Revolutionary times, from the Terror to the Napoleonic campaigns and then to the upheavals of 1830 and 1848. Despite the importance of violence in Balzac, this is the first book-length study of the topic. The book begins by tracing the links between violence and Balzac's approach to the novel, not merely in terms of violent content, but, equally importantly, in terms of the form associated with that content. Form and content combine to perpetuate and naturalise violence and suffering. After charting examples of this combination in one of Balzac's earliest fictions, the book moves on to the links between violence and history (Catherine de Medicis; the Terror), between violence and place (from his native Touraine to sickness in Paris), and between violence and gender/sexuality. It also examines the representation of violence in the form of spoken or written death. Throughout the analysis, the book asks the following question: do Balzac's novels reinforce or counteract the literary text's apparent love-affair with violence?

288 pp. Pb. *neuwertig*

[KW: Literaturwissenschaft; Romanistik]

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Zweig, Stefan: Balzac. Translated by William and Dorothy Rose. New York, Viking (1946).
Erste amerikanische Ausgabe. - Umschlag mit Fehlstellen.

8°. 404 S. Original-Leinenband mit OUmschlag.

[KW: Literatur]

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Zweig, Stefan. Balzac. Translated by William and Dorothy Rose. New York, Viking Press, 1946.
Bolbecher-K. 732.- Erste amerikanische Ausgabe, die OA erschien im selben Jahr bei Bermann-Fischer in Stockholm.- Mit Nachwort von Richard Friedenthal.- Leichte Gebrauchsspuren, etw. gebräunt. Vors. u. Vortitel mit montierten Anzeigen dazu.

8°. Mit 14 Tafelabbildungen. VI SS., 1 Bl., 404 SS. OLn. (etw. beschabt, bestoßen u. gering fleckig).

[KW: Exilliteratur, Literatur, Österreich, Biographien]

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The Westminster Review. July and October, 1853. New Series, Vol. IV. London, Chapman 1853.
Enthält: McCrie, Thomas - The Life of John Knox - Over-Legislation - Pedigree and Heraldry -Sects and Secular Education - Young Criminals - The Life of Moore - Indian and its Finance - Balzac and his writing - TheTurkish Empire - Religion in Italy - The Progress of Fiction as an Art - Partnership with Limited Liability - The Book of Job - The School Claims of Languages, Ancient and Modern, German Mysticism in the Seventeenth Century - The Universal Postulate - The Progress of Russia - Contemporary Literature of England, America, Germany and France. - Titelblatt mit gelöschtem Stempel.

3 Bl., 639 Seiten. Pappband der Zeit. Etwas berieben.

[KW: Geschichte, History, Historie, England / United Kingdom, englische Ausgaben / english editions]

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