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Balzac's Shorter Fictions

By Tim Farrant

Balzac's Shorter Fictions

By Tim Farrant

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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.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
372
Release Date:
2002-04-25
Publication Date:
2002-02-14
Publisher:
OUP Oxford
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0198151977
ISBN13:
9780198151975
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[email protected]
Weight:
722 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
25 cm
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