Title : Balzac - A Life of Novels - Gonzague Saint Bris - Book
Summary :
“Let’s talk about Balzac, it feels good!”
Gerard de Nerval
The life of Honoré de Balzac is a prodigious novel: unloved child of an indifferent mother, solitary schoolboy, perpetually bankrupt publisher, socialite riddled with debt, gastronomic ogre, unfortunate pineapple importer, wandering traveler on the roads of Europe, darling adored by female readers but rejected by the Académie Française, fabulously tenacious lover, he is according to Baudelaire "the most curious, the most comical, the most interesting and the most vain of the characters in La Comédie humaine."
What Balzac hides in his life, he reveals in his work and Gonzague Saint Bris draws up a dizzying inventory of the passions that ran through him: Balzac and money, Balzac and the condition of women, Balzac and science, Balzac and coffee, Balzac and Napoleon, Balzac and photography, Balzac and music, Balzac and the occult, Balzac and journalism.
At the end of a biography of a new genre, abundant and enthusiastic, he invites us to immerse ourselves with delight and relish in the heart of the 142 novels of La Comédie humaine and its 2,500 characters.
It brings to light twenty little-known "gems" and ten "unmissable" novels, jewels from the fabulous pantheon of the literary colossus, a true convict of letters with the "supernatural light" hailed by François Mauriac.
Author of around forty essays and novels (Interallié Prize 2002 for Les Vieillards de Brighton), historical portraits (La Fayette, François Ier, Henri IV), Gonzague Saint Bris is the biographer of the Romantics (Vigny, Dumas, George Sand, Marie d'Agoult, La Malibran, Musset).
A descendant of the Mames, publishers and printers of Balzac, president of the Honoré de Balzac de Touraine society, author of Le Bel Appétit de Monsieur de Balzac and Je vous aime, inconnue, Balzac et Éva Hanska, initiator of La Grande Marche du Bicentenaire de Tours à Saché, Gonzague Saint Bris devoted thirty years to the most fascinating figure in French literature.
- EAN: 9782753301351
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