Maurois André

Prometheus The Life of Balzac. Translated by Norman Denny.

1965réf. vita6031New York: Harper & Row Publishers 1965. Octavo red cloth hardcover gilt letters uncut 573 pp. Fine by Good dust jacket with edgewear with two small tears. From dust jacket: It may be said of Honore de Balzac the “de” is more than questionable that into a lifetime of fifty years he packed the lives of half a dozen men three or four of them writers. The writers include the social historian and novelist of genius who conceived the vast Comedie Humaine and produced such undeniable masterpieces as Eugenie Grandet Le Pere Goriot Illusions Perdues. As for the two or three others Balzacs there was the man of affairs who failed resoundingly in all his financial and commercial undertakings although no one ever wrote more knowledgeably about practical matters the man of the world who squandered in reckless extravagance the money he had still to earn and the man wo loved women all women more or less a few women very deeply. Balzac’s reputation as one of the greatest of novelists has long been secure; but during the past fifteen years -- that is to say since the centenary of his death in 1850 -- there has been in France a special stir of interest in him. Archives have been re-examined judgments have been reassessed and much new material has been brought to light. It is this apart from his love of the subject which prompted Andre Maurois to embark upon a new Life. In particular he has sought to relate the life to the works to brig together all the different aspects good and bad of this phenomenal man so that he may be seen as a whole living growing and working -- above all working! -- in the vivid and dramatic context of his time. The task was one immense size and complexity calling for great judgment and skill. Maurois has accomplished it magnificently crowing as an illustrious working life with what is undoubtedly his finest book. To read it is to be enthralled. It is to live Balzac in Balzac’s world to marvel to deplore to grieve and finally to love him. Perhaps the greatest of all Balzac’s gifts was his capacity for inspiring love in all who knew him well. Harper & Row Publishers, (1965). hardcover books

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