ISBN: 9781235205071

Ce livre historique peut contenir de nombreuses coquilles et du texte manquant. Les acheteurs peuvent généralement télécharger une copie gratuite scannée du livre original (sans les coqui… Mehr…

Ce livre historique peut contenir de nombreuses coquilles et du texte manquant. Les acheteurs peuvent généralement télécharger une copie gratuite scannée du livre original (sans les coquilles) auprès de l''éditeur. Non référencé. Non illustré. 1904 edition. Extrait: ...Balzac in detail, he cannot, any more than other great masters of the present and the past, escape all critical severity. But when we examine in its totality his mighty work, be we critic, public, or fellow-artists, we must all agree, or wellnigh agree, on one point, namely,--that in the class of work to which it belongs nothing more complete ever issued from the brain of a writer. I myself, when I have read, one by one, these extraordinary books as they came from the press, I did not like them all. Some shocked my tastes, my convictions, my sympathies. At times I was tempted to say, ''This is too long,'' or ''That is wearisome.'' Others seemed to me fantastic, and made me say to myself with regret, ''What is the good of it; what does he mean?'' But when Balzac, having found the secret of his destiny, and solved the enigma of his genius, grasped that deep and admirable idea of the Comidie Humaine, when, by laborious and ingenious classification, he welded all parts of his work into a logical whole, each of those parts, even those I least liked on their first appearance, took their rightful place and assumed their real value. Each of these books is, in fact, a page of the great work, which would be incomplete without this important page. For this reason it is necessary to read the whole of Balzac. Nothing is unimportant to the general work; and we soon perceive that in this immeasurable stretch of imagination, to imagination he has sacrificed nothing. Every book has been for him an awesome study. And when we think that he had not, like Dumas, the power of a marvellous memory, like Lamartine facility of style, like Alphonse Karr poetry ready-made in his eyes (not to speak of a dozen special... Honoré de Balzac, Books, History, La comédie humaine of Honoré de Balzac (40 ) Books>History, General Books LLC<

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