GADENNE Paul.
Three prefaces to Balzac.
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| N° d'inventaire | 25754 |
| Format | 12 x 19 |
| Détails | 88 p., paperback with flaps. |
| Publication | Cognac, 1992 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782868531483 |
It was for an excellent "club" edition of Balzac's complete works (Formes et Reflets, 1950 and 51), edited by Albert Béguin (who was perhaps his only true friend), that Gadenne wrote these essays.
Simple prefaces to Honorine, to the Marriage Contract and to A Prince of Bohemia, these texts certainly do not reveal to us an unexpected connection between the literary and philosophical universe of Gadenne and that of Balzac; but they are nonetheless rigorous, intelligent and loving readings of the greatest French novelist of the 19th century by a 20th century novelist "like one or two per generation" - who does not fail to express, in passing, very personal views on the novel in general.
Simple prefaces to Honorine, to the Marriage Contract and to A Prince of Bohemia, these texts certainly do not reveal to us an unexpected connection between the literary and philosophical universe of Gadenne and that of Balzac; but they are nonetheless rigorous, intelligent and loving readings of the greatest French novelist of the 19th century by a 20th century novelist "like one or two per generation" - who does not fail to express, in passing, very personal views on the novel in general.
Simple prefaces to Honorine, to the Marriage Contract and to A Prince of Bohemia, these texts certainly do not reveal to us an unexpected connection between the literary and philosophical universe of Gadenne and that of Balzac; but they are nonetheless rigorous, intelligent and loving readings of the greatest French novelist of the 19th century by a 20th century novelist "like one or two per generation" - who does not fail to express, in passing, very personal views on the novel in general.