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Balzac's late masterpiece translated with 200 intertwined characters
There exists a late work by Balzac that has long been known by the rather sensational title *The Splendors and Miseries of ...
It’s the French writer’s birthday, but if you don’t have time to devour all 91 titles in his magnum opus The Human Comedy, Ronald K. Fried picks three of the novels that speak to the current moment.
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In the mid-1840s, in a melancholy mood about the series of modernisations he was witnessing in Paris, Honoré de ...
Thinking about Balzac through Dungeons and Dragons helps make visible a logic of character creation that is often taken for ...
French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac captured the reading public’s imagination with the publication in 1832 of My Journey from Paris to Java, an imaginary travelog describing a journey to ...
No adequate biography of Honoré de Balzac has yet been written ; a fact somewhat strange, considering the interest and attractiveness of the subject and the abundance of the material available. Of ...
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