Balzac

By: Graham Robb

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Paperback | 22 September 2000 | Edition Number 1

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Graham Robb has produced a masterpiece of literary biography in which Balzac bursts into life on every page. The living manifestation of the colourful and varied world he described, yet at the same time its most astonishing exception, Balzac is the perfect subject for biography. Robb skilfully interweaves the life with the work to paint an indelible and brilliantly compelling portrait of one of the great tragicomic heroes of the nineteenth century, a man whose influence both in and outside his native France has been and is still immense.

`Graham Robb does a superb job in bringing Balzac to life in all his preposterousness, while still letting us appreciate his genius' Sunday Independent

`Robb's Balzac is a fine achievement: an impressive work of scholarship and an enormously enjoyable read. In a well-paced narrative, he blends solid evidence with amusing anecdote, patient evaluation with witty aside' Guardian

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Balzac's gargantuan appetite for life enabled him not only to produce one of the great novel sequences in La Comedie Humaine, but also to lie, cheat and love across Europe at a breathless pace for all his 30-odd adult years. This biography, shortlisted for the 1994 Whitbread Prize, is superb, making the reader anxious to discover or rediscover the original works as well as providing an honest, sympathetic, warts-and-all analysis of the French author's life. (Kirkus UK)

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Non-Fiction Literature, Poetry & Plays History & Criticism of Literature General Literary Studies Literary Studies from 1500 to 1800 Literary Studies from 1800 to 1900 Literary Studies of Fiction Biographies & True Stories Biographies Literary Biographies Historical, Political and Military Biographies

List of Illustrations	p. ix
Introduction	p. xi
	p. 1
Provincial Life: (1799-1814)	p. 3
Parisian Life: (1815-1819)	p. 34
Dreams: (1819-1820)	p. 54
Gutter Poetry: (1821-1822)	p. 73
Divine Intercourse: (1822-1824)	p. 95
the Price of Free Enterprise: (1824-1828)	p. 116
	p. 143
the Last of the Chouans: (1828-1830)	p. 145
Absolute Power: (1830-1832)	p. 175
Madness: (1832)	p. 201
the Ideal Woman: (1832-1834)	p. 223
family	p. 246
Illusions Lost and Found: (1836-1837)	p. 269
	p. 295
Buried. Treasure: (1838)	p. 297
Barbarians: (1839-1842)	p. 315
the End of the Tunnel: (1842-1845)	p. 337
Revolution: (1845-1848)	p. 359
Home: (1848-1850)	p. 385
the Human Comedy: (epilogule)	p. 411
Appendices	p. 419
Notes	p. 431
Select Bibliography	p. 475
General Index	p. 493
Index of Characters	p. 513
Index of Works	p. 517
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