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Balzac's Paris

- The City as Human Comedy
Af: Eric Hazan Engelsk Hardback

Balzac's Paris

- The City as Human Comedy
Af: Eric Hazan Engelsk Hardback
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In Balzac’s vast <i>Human Comedy</i>, 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.<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>More than a tour of the city, <i>Balzac’s Paris</i> is an attempt to measure the soul of a city as recovered in its finest literature.
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In Balzac’s vast <i>Human Comedy</i>, 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.<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>More than a tour of the city, <i>Balzac’s Paris</i> is an attempt to measure the soul of a city as recovered in its finest literature.
Produktdetaljer
Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 208
ISBN-13: 9781839767258
Indbinding: Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 1839767251
Kategori: Paris
Udg. Dato: 25 jun 2024
Længde: 20mm
Bredde: 149mm
Højde: 219mm
Forlag: Verso Books
Oplagsdato: 25 jun 2024
Forfatter(e): Eric Hazan
Forfatter(e) Eric Hazan


Kategori Paris


ISBN-13 9781839767258


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Hardback


Sider 208


Udgave


Længde 20mm


Bredde 149mm


Højde 219mm


Udg. Dato 25 jun 2024


Oplagsdato 25 jun 2024


Forlag Verso Books

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