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Zusatztext ... ambitious and original ... short, pithily organized, and meticulously documented chapters ... Seen as a genealogy of 'Balzac polylogue' as well as an archaeology of 'Balzac conteur', this is a fascinating and important study. Informationen zum Autor Fellow in French at Pembroke College and a CUF Lecturer in French at the university of Oxford Klappentext Balzac's reputation is as a novelist. But short stories make up over half La Comédie humaine, besides scores of other tales and articles. Short forms appear early in Balzac's output, and shape his work throughout his career. Balzac's Shorter Fictions looks at the whole of this corpus, at the nature of short fiction, and at how Balzac's novels developed from his stories - at the links between literary genesis and genre. It explores the roles of short fiction in Balzac's creation, its part in producing effects of virtuality and perspective, and reflects ultimately on the relationship between brevity and length in La Comédie humaine. This, the first complete English-language study of Balzac's work for over forty years, synthesizes recent research on Balzac's practice within the context of modern thought on the author. It is an indispensable book for students and scholars of Balzac, and for all those interested in prose fiction. Zusammenfassung Balzac's reputation is as a novelist. But short stories make up over half La Comédie humaine, besides scores of other tales and articles. Short forms appear early in Balzac's output, and shape his work throughout his career. Balzac's Shorter Fictions looks at the whole of this corpus, at the nature of short fiction, and at how Balzac's novels developed from his stories - at the links between literary genesis and genre. It explores the roles of short fiction in Balzac's creation, its part in producing effects of virtuality and perspective, and reflects ultimately on the relationship between brevity and length in La Comédie humaine.This, the first complete English-language study of Balzac's work for over forty years, synthesizes recent research on Balzac's practice within the context of modern thought on the author. It is an indispensable book for students and scholars of Balzac, and for all those interested in prose fiction. Inhaltsverzeichnis General Introduction 1: Philosophies of Composition: From `Corsino' to the `Code des gens honnêttes', 1818-1825 2: From Code to Physiologie, 1826-1829 3: The First Scenes de la vie privée, 1829-1830 4: Narratives and Newspapers, 1829-1830 5: Balzac and the Literary Reviews, October 1830 - August 1831 6: From la Peau de chagrin to the Contes drolatiques, 1831-1832 7: Balzac, Roi de la Nouvelle: from the `Contes bruns' To `Le Curé de Tours' (1832) 8: Another Destiny? From `Louis Lambert' to `Le Pÿre Goriot', September 1832 - March 1835 9: Building the Cathedral, 1835-1838 10: Relative Values, 1838-1839 11: Roi des romanciers? Scenes, Satires, and Serials, 1839-1840 12: Towards the Comédie, 1840-1841 13: La Grrrrrrande Comédie, 1842-1845 14: Constellations and Supernovellas: `Nouvelle' And Novel, 1841-1844 Conclusion; Bibliography Index ...
List of contents
- General Introduction
- 1: Philosophies of Composition: From `Corsino' to the `Code des gens honnêttes', 1818-1825
- 2: From Code to Physiologie, 1826-1829
- 3: The First Scenes de la vie privée, 1829-1830
- 4: Narratives and Newspapers, 1829-1830
- 5: Balzac and the Literary Reviews, October 1830 - August 1831
- 6: From la Peau de chagrin to the Contes drolatiques, 1831-1832
- 7: Balzac, Roi de la Nouvelle: from the `Contes bruns' To `Le Curé de Tours' (1832)
- 8: Another Destiny? From `Louis Lambert' to `Le Pÿre Goriot', September 1832 - March 1835
- 9: Building the Cathedral, 1835-1838
- 10: Relative Values, 1838-1839
- 11: Roi des romanciers? Scenes, Satires, and Serials, 1839-1840
- 12: Towards the Comédie, 1840-1841
- 13: La Grrrrrrande Comédie, 1842-1845
- 14: Constellations and Supernovellas: `Nouvelle' And Novel, 1841-1844
- Conclusion;
- Bibliography
- Index
