Balzac - Hardcover

Robb, Graham

 
9780330332378: Balzac
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0330332376 ISBN 13: 9780330332378
Verlag: Picador, 1994

Inhaltsangabe

Balzac was the living manifestation of the colourful and varied world he described. Compared to Balzac, Flaubert, Henry James and Tolstoy are mere observers. Like the arch-criminal Vantrin, Balzac was an expert in manipulation, he was a passionate collector, a perfect companion and like Baron Hulot, he was a relentless seducer. This book takes readers through Balzac's early literary disappointments and his relentless struggle against poverty, and how he developed his extraordinary powers of hard work and concentration in his early 20s, churning out a factory line of cheap, melodramatic novels. It shows how his desire for literary success and wealth led to various hair-brained entrepreneurial schemes and how his private life became a series of misadventures that culminated in an unfortunate correspondence with the Polish countess, Eveline Hanska, whom he wanted to marry.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Graham Robb was born in Manchester in 1958 and is a former fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. He has published widely on French literature and history. His book The Discovery of France won both the Duff Cooper and Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prizes. For Parisians the City of Paris awarded him the Grande Médaille de la Ville de Paris. He lives on the English-Scottish border.

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Verlag
Picador
Erscheinungsdatum
1994
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0330332376
ISBN 13 
9780330332378
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
544
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