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008			210218s2020 nyu b 001 0 eng
020			_a9781681374499 (pbk.)
020			_a1681374498 (pbk.)
035			_a(OCoLC)1112379896
050			_aPQ2184.C5 _bB76 2020
100	1		_aBrooks, Peter, _d1938-
245	1	0	_aBalzac's lives / _cby Peter Brooks.
260			_aNew York : _bNew York Review Books, _c[2020]
300			_a266 p.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aWhy Balzac? -- Eugène de Rastignac -- Jean-Esther van Gobseck -- Antoinette de Langeais -- Raphaël de Valentin -- Lucien Chardon de Rubempré -- Jacques Collin -- Henriette de Mortsauf -- Colonel Chabert -- Marco Facino Cane and Friend -- Living in fictional lives.
520			_a"Peter Brooks's Balzac's Lives is a biography like no other, a vivid and searching portrait of the great novelist that is based on a close examination of the extraordinary characters that throng his work. More than anyone, Balzac invented the nineteenth-century novel, with its interwoven plots and diverse and overlapping realities-political, economic, domestic, psychological. Indeed, Oscar Wilde went so far as to say that Balzac invented the nineteenth century! It was, above all, the wonderful, unforgettable, extravagant characters he dreamed up and made flesh-entrepreneurs, bankers, inventors, industrialists, poets, artists, bohemians of both sexes, journalists, aristocrats, politicians, prostitutes-that allowed Balzac to bring to life the dynamic forces of the new era that ushered in our own. Brooks singles out the capitalist Gobseck, the aspiring writer Lucien de Rubempré, the ambitious politician Rastignac, and the gay criminal mastermind Collin, among others, to disclose the secret workings of a great writer's inner world"--
600	1	4	_aBalzac, Honore de, _d1799-1850. _xCharacters.
600	1	4	_aBalzac, Honore de, _d1799-1850 _xCriticism and interpretation.
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