Balzac's Paris: The City as Human Comedy Eric Hazan Verso Books 1001

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In Balzac\'s vast Human Comedy, 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.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.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.More than a tour of the city, Balzac\'s Paris is an attempt to measure the soul of a city as recovered in its finest literature. Σελίδες: 208, Έτος Έκδοσης: 1001, Διαστάσεις: 14x14cm

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