Comédie humaine. Selections. English

The human comedy : selected stories / Honoré de Balzac ; edited and with an introduction by Peter Brooks ; translated from the French by Linda Asher, Carol Cosman, Jordan Stump.

New York : New York Review Books, [2014]

xxi, 428 pages ; 21 cm.

BEIN NYRB Classics 333: Number line on t.p. verso indicates first printing: "10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1." Paperbound.

"We think of Honore Balzac as the author of long and fully upholstered novels, stitched together into the magnificent visionary document called The Human Comedy. Yet along with the full-length fiction within The Human Comedy stand many shorter works, and it's here that we get some of his most daring explorations of crime, sexuality, and artistic creation. As Marcel Proust noted, it is in these tales that we detect, under the surface, the mysterious circulation of blood and desire. All are newly translated by three outstanding translators who restore the freshness of Balzac's vivid and highly colored prose"-- Provided by publisher.

English

April 02, 2014

Includes bibliographical references.