Balzac's Shorter Fictions: Genesis and Genre

ISBN-13: 9780198151975 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 370 str.

Tim Farrant

Opis

Balzac's reputation is as a novelist. But short stories make up over half La Comedie humaine, besides scores of other tales and articles. Balzac's Shorter Fictions looks at the whole of this corpus, at the nature of short fiction, and at how Balzac's novels developed from his stories--at the links between literary genesis and genre.
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Recenzje

... ambitious and original ... short, pithily organized, and meticulously documented chapters ... Seen as a genealogy of 'Balzac polylogue' as well as an archaeology of 'Balzac conteur', this is a fascinating and important study.

O autorze

Fellow in French at Pembroke College and a CUF Lecturer in French at the university of Oxford