Balzac's Lives av Peter Brooks

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<b>Enter the mind of French literary giant Honoré de Balzac with this groundbreaking biography that illuminates the writer''s life and era through close study of the unforgettable characters and places in Balzac''s expansive and inimitable works.</b><br><br>Peter Brook''s <i>Balzac''s Lives </i>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, in any case, 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--tha