Balzac's Paris
By Eric Hazan
By Eric Hazan
By Eric Hazan
By Eric Hazan
Category: Travel | Literary Criticism
Category: Travel | Literary Criticism
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$24.95
Jun 25, 2024 | ISBN 9781839767258
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Jun 25, 2024 | ISBN 9781839767289
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Praise
“Amid the intellectual murkiness of the European scene, a few bright flames are burning: as witness the work of Eric Hazan.”
—New Left Review
“Hazan’s scrupulous readings of Balzac bring 19th-century Paris to life, shedding light on the social friction between old money and the nouveau riche that shaped the city in the wake of the 1830 July Revolution. It’s an enchanting literary love letter to the City of Lights.”
—Publishers Weekly
“Eric Hazan’s delightful cultural history Balzac’s Paris: The City as Human Comedy, ably translated from the French by David Fernbach, traces the roughly 35 years that Balzac spent living and working in the City of Light.”
—Tobias Grey, Air Mail
“Hazan is charmed to be in the company of his hero, and for the course of a 200-page tour we are pleased to follow along.”
—Oliver-James Campbell, Spectator
“Hazan narrates in the manner of a tour guide, hopping from location to location and offering up nuggets of commentary: pertinent quotes from the novels, or Balzac’s personal correspondence; etymological titbits; an apposite line from Baudelaire or Proust. The format, and the languid, dizzyingly directionless prose style, will be familiar to readers of Hazan’s best-known work, The Invention of Paris, a sprawling radical history of the city”
—Houman Barekat, Guardian
“A stellar feat of scholarship…”
—Wall Street Journal
“Denizens of [Balzac’s] city waltz in and out of the narrative, coupling and uncoupling, striving and skulking, gambling and dying … a journey worth taking, reminding us that through its many renovations, Paris has remained a place where “everything smokes, everything burns, everything shines, everything bubbles, everything flames, evaporates, is extinguished, rekindled, sparkles, fizzles and is consumed”.”
—Lauren Elkin, Financial Times
Table Of Contents
Translations and Acknowledgements
Why Paris?
A Wanderer
The Street
Quarters
The Press
Publishers
At the Theatre
Friends, Politics, and the ‘Realism’ of Balzac’s Paris
Notes
Index
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