A book on the experience of reading Honoré de Balzac's La Comédie humaine which recounts the process of Peter Brooks's own discovery of Balzac. A personal account of coming to terms with Balzac: moving from more classical and restrained authors to the highly-coloured melodramatic novels of the Human Comedy, which give us the dynamics of a new and challenging world on the threshold of modernity. This volume shows readers how to read, and to love reading, Balzac, and how to engage with his vast work.
| ISBN: | 9780192846709 |
| Publication date: | 25th August 2022 |
| Author: | Peter Brooks |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press an imprint of OUP OXFORD |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 176 pages |
| Series: | My Reading |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Literary studies: plays and playwrights Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers |