Balzac's Shorter Fictions
Genesis and Genre
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 14 February 2002
- ISBN 9780198151975
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages368 pages
- Size 242x162x21 mm
- Weight 557 g
- Language English 50
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Short description:
Balzac's reputation is as a novelist. But short stories make up over half La Comédie humaine. Balzac's Shorter Fictions explores this corpus, the nature of short fiction, and how Balzac's novels developed from his stories. It is an indispensable book for students and scholars of Balzac, and for all those interested in prose fiction.
MoreLong description:
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.
Balzac's Shorter Fictions is the best English-language book on Balzac to appear for at least a generation, and, in this writer's view, one of the Top Ten of all time in any language, right up there with the work of Anthony Pugh or Stéphane Vachon in terms of all-embracing, meticulous scholarship, yet as brim full of critical ideas per page as Maurice Bard?che or Pierre Barbéris at their vintage best.
Table of Contents:
General Introduction
Philosophies of Composition: From `Corsino' to the `Code des gens honn?ttes', 1818-1825
From Code to Physiologie, 1826-1829
The First Scenes de la vie privée, 1829-1830
Narratives and Newspapers, 1829-1830
Balzac and the Literary Reviews, October 1830 - August 1831
From la Peau de chagrin to the Contes drolatiques, 1831-1832
Balzac, Roi de la Nouvelle: from the `Contes bruns' To `Le Curé de Tours' (1832)
Another Destiny? From `Louis Lambert' to `Le P?re Goriot', September 1832 - March 1835
Building the Cathedral, 1835-1838
Relative Values, 1838-1839
Roi des romanciers? Scenes, Satires, and Serials, 1839-1840
Towards the Comédie, 1840-1841
La Grrrrrrande Comédie, 1842-1845
Constellations and Supernovellas: `Nouvelle' And Novel, 1841-1844
Balzac's Shorter Fictions
Bibliography
Index
