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Ladataan... Balzac (1973)Tekijä: V. S. Pritchett
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Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. An obsessive compulsive genius was our poor Balzac. Pritchett is a fine biographer of this tremendously energised chronicler of French society in the years following Napoleon's defeat. Well researched, plenty of illustrations and blessed with V.S. Pritchett's effortless prose.
V.S. Pritchett is another novelist and storyteller who has come under Balzac's spell, and he writes about him in a manner suited to the subject-Balzac would have enjoyed his book. The derogatory epithet "coffee table" is often applied to illustrated biographical studies of this type, but I cannot see why a great number of prints and portraits, admirably chosen and reproduced, should be assumed to diminish the value of a serious work, or why it should be taken for granted that people who put books on coffee tables look at nothing but the pictures. In any case, Balzac loved display, and nothing could be less literary than his hold over his original clientele; his appeal was to their sentiment and curiosity, their snobbery, greed, and sensationalism-all the things be wrote about himself... Pritchett's task, well accomplished, is to remind us that Balzac is an extraordinary man, worth reading for the sake of himself and his characters (Pritchett is very good on the device of the recurring figure in the Comedie Humaine).
Honore de Balzac, with his monumental legacy, the Comedie Humaine (an unsurpassed picture of French society from the rise and fall of Napoleon to the Revolution), was one of the founding geniuses among the world's great novelists. Pritchett presents a life-size portrait of the man inside the artist, the exhuberant, uncouth provincial who combined encyclopaedic knowledge with the life of an exhibitionist and would-be dandy. He was a gourmet, a disastrous financial speculator, successful pursuer of aristocratic women, a born salesman and an untiring traveller. Yet, with some truth, Balzac called himself a monk, working 16 hours a day fuelled by an ocean of strong coffee. Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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