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. "
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 Sho...
Everyone knows something of nineteenth-century France - or do they? "Les Miserables," "The Lady of the Camelias" and "The Three Musketeers," "Balzac" and "Jules Verne" live in the popular consciousness as enduring human documents and cultural icons. Yet, the French nineteenth century was even more dynamic than the stereotype suggests. This exciting new introduction takes the literature of the period both as a window on past and present mindsets and as an object of fascination in its own right. Beginning with history, the century's biggest problem and potential, it looks at narrative...
Everyone knows something of nineteenth-century France - or do they? "Les Miserables," "The Lady of the Camelias" and "The Three Musketeers," "Balza...
