Centre de Recherche sur les Poétiques du XIXe siècle

  •  Université Sorbonne Nouvelle : 8, av. de Saint-Mandé, 75012 Paris
    CRP19, 17, rue de la Sorbonne, 75005, Paris (bureau F013)

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Balzac's lives

Peter Brooks, Balzac's Lives, New York Review of Books, 2020

Balzac, more than anyone, invented the nineteenth-century novel, and Oscar Wilde went so far as to say that Balzac had invented the nineteenth century. But it was above all through the wonderful, unforgettable, extravagant characters that Balzac dreamed up and made flesh—entrepreneurs, bankers, inventors, industrialists, poets, artists, bohemians of both sexes, journalists, aristocrats, politicians, prostitutes—that he brought to life the dynamic forces of an era that ushered in our own. Peter Brooks’s Balzac’s Lives is a vivid and searching portrait of a great novelist as revealed through the fictional lives he imagined.

voir sur le site de la New York Review of Books