Honore De Balzac

A book on the experience of reading Honoré de Balzac's La Comédie humaine which recounts the process of Peter Brooks's own discovery of Balzac.

List of contents

• 1: Balzac: Reading for More


• 2: Fangs and Kisses


• 3: Making Books, Devouring Presses


• 4: The Shape of Time


• 5: To Say Everything

About the author

Peter Brooks has taught mainly at Yale University, where he is Sterling Professor of Comparative Literature Emeritus; he has held positions also at the University of Virginia, Princeton University, the universities of Oxford, Bologna, and Copenhagen.

Summary

A book on the experience of reading Honoré de Balzac's La Comédie humaine which recounts the process of Peter Brooks's own discovery of Balzac.

Additional text

Brooks never ceases to intrigue readers by his deeply probing work of literary and critical scholarship.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Brooks, Peter (Sterling Professor of Comparative L Brooks, Brooks Peter
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2022
• EAN: 9780192846709
• ISBN: 978-0-19-284670-9
• No. of pages: 162
• Series: My Reading
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form