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Description for Balzac
paperback. 'Intellectually thrilling, psychologically acute and very wittily written: a worthy offering to its subject' Observer Num Pages: 521 pages, facsimiles, portraits. BIC Classification: 2ADF; BG; DSBD; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 196 x 45. Weight in Grams: 468. Good clean copy with minor age & shelf wear. Lightly toned, remains very good
Graham Robb has produced a masterpiece literary biography in which Balzac bursts into life on every page.
The living manifestation of the colourful and varied world he described, yet at the same time its most astonishing exception, Balzac is the perfect subject for biography. Robb skilfully interweaves the life with the work to paint an indelible and brilliantly compelling portrait of one of the great tragicomic heroes of the nineteenth century, a man whose influence both in and outside his native France has been and is still immense.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Picador
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
576
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780330320153
SKU
KSG0039473
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Graham Robb
Graham Robb was born in Manchester in 1958 and is a former Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. He has published widely on French literature and history. His 2007 book The Discovery of France won both the Duff Cooper and Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prizes. For Parisians the City of Paris awarded him the Grande Médaille de la Ville de Paris. He lives on the English-Scottish border.
Reviews for Balzac
Graham Robb does a superb job in bringing Balzac to life in all his preposterousness, while still letting us appreciate his genius.
Sunday Independent
Robb’s Balzac is a fine achievement: an impressive work of scholarship and an enormously enjoyable read. In a well-paced narrative, he blends solid evidence with amusing anecdote, patient evaluation with witty aside.
Guardian
Intellectually thrilling, psychologically acute and very wittily written: a worthy offering to its subject.
Observer
Sunday Independent
Robb’s Balzac is a fine achievement: an impressive work of scholarship and an enormously enjoyable read. In a well-paced narrative, he blends solid evidence with amusing anecdote, patient evaluation with witty aside.
Guardian
Intellectually thrilling, psychologically acute and very wittily written: a worthy offering to its subject.
Observer