Balzac's Paris
€ 21,90
Informação do Produto
| ISBN | 9781839767258 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Eric (Director) Hazan |
| Editora | Verso Books |
| Formato | Capa dura |
| Número de páginas | 208 |
| Peso (kg) | 0,316 |
| Data de Publicação | 25/06/2024 |
| Preço (iva excl.) | € 20,66 |
| Imposto | € 1,24 |
| Preço (iva inc.) | € 21,90 |
| Disponibilidade | 2 unidades em armazém externo |
Descrição do Produto
In Balzac’s vast Human Comedy, a body of ninety-one completed novels and stories, he endeavoured to create a complete picture of contemporary French society and manners. Within this work is a loving ode to Paris and an incomparable introduction to the first capital of the modern world.
To this ageless city he makes a declaration of love in an accumulation of finely observed detail – the cafés, landmarks, avenues, parks – and captures the populace in countless meticulously drawn portraits: its lawyers, grisettes, journalists, concierges, usurers, salesmen, speculators.
Balzac gathered the elements of this Paris by sauntering through it. ‘To saunter is a science,’ he writes, ‘it is the gastronomy of the eye. To take a walk is to vegetate; to saunter is to live.’ Eric Hazan follows in Balzac’s footsteps, criss-crossing the city in the novelist’s outsize boots, running between printers, publishers, coffee merchants, mistresses and friends, stopping for a moment, struck by a detail that would be fixed in Balzac’s photographic memory.
More than a tour of the city, Balzac’s Paris is an attempt to measure the soul of a city as recovered in its finest literature.