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A personal account of coming to terms with Balzac: how I moved from more classical and restrained authors (Stendhal, Laclos) 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. "The father of us all," Henry James called Balzac. This is a book about how to read Balzac, to love reading him, and to engage his vast work.
1. Balzac: Reading for More -- 2. Fangs and Kisses -- 3. Writing, Talking, Devouring Presses -- 4. The Shape of Time -- 5. To Say Everything -- Acknowledgments -- Further Reading -- Notes -- Index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.