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- ISBN 9780192846709
- Weight: 300g
- Dimensions: 142 x 224mm
- Publication Date: 25 Aug 2022
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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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.
Peter Brooks has taught mainly at Yale University, where he is Sterling Professor of Comparative Literature Emeritus; he has held positions also at the University of Virginia, Princeton University, the universities of Oxford, Bologna, and Copenhagen.
