HSPLS site	Login My List - 0 Help
	Search   My Account   Databases   HI Newspaper   eBooks/Audiobooks   Learning   PC Reservation   Reading Program

Basic Advanced Power History

Search:  Title BrowseAuthor BrowseSubject BrowseBest Seller BrowseMusic Title BrowseVideo/DVD Title BrowseJournal/Newspaper Title BrowseSerial Title BrowseSeries Browse (includes Bestseller List)General KeywordTitle KeywordAuthor KeywordSubject KeywordName KeywordSeries KeywordScore Title BrowseTalking Book Title BrowseAwards Note BrowseBib No.Barcode       Refine Search     > You're searching: HAWAII STATE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM

Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Brooks, Peter, 1938- author.     Subjects     Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850 -- Characters.     Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850 -- Criticism and interpretation.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Brooks, Peter, 1938- author.       by title:      Balzac's lives / Pet...         MARC Display

Balzac's lives / Peter Brooks. by Brooks, Peter, 1938- author. New York : New York Review Books, [2020] Subjects Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850 -- Characters.   Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850 -- Criticism and interpretation. ISBN:  9781681374499 (paperback) : 1681374498 (paperback) : Description:  266 pages ; 22 cm Contents:  Why Balzac? -- Eugène de Rastignac -- Jean-Esther van Gobseck -- Antoinette de Langeais -- Raphaël de Valentin -- Lucien Chardon de Rubempré -- Jacques Collin -- Henriette de Mortsauf -- Colonel Chabert -- Marco Facino Cane and Friend -- Living in fictional lives. Requests:  0 Summary:  "Peter Brooks's Balzac's Lives is a biography like no other, a vivid and searching portrait of the great novelist that is based on a close examination of the extraordinary characters that throng his work. More than anyone, Balzac invented the nineteenth-century novel, with its interwoven plots and diverse and overlapping realities-political, economic, domestic, psychological. Indeed, Oscar Wilde went so far as to say that Balzac invented the nineteenth century! It was, above all, the wonderful, unforgettable, extravagant characters he dreamed up and made flesh-entrepreneurs, bankers, inventors, industrialists, poets, artists, bohemians of both sexes, journalists, aristocrats, politicians, prostitutes-that allowed Balzac to bring to life the dynamic forces of the new era that ushered in our own. Brooks singles out the capitalist Gobseck, the aspiring writer Lucien de Rubempré, the ambitious politician Rastignac, and the gay criminal mastermind Collin, among others, to disclose the secret workings of a great writer's inner world"--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Language, Literature & History 843.7 Br Checked In Add Copy to MyList

Horizon Information Portal 3.0

© 2001-2013 SirsiDynix All rights reserved.