{"product_id":"balzacs-lives-peter-brooks-9781681374499","title":"Balzac's Lives","description":"\u003cb\u003eEnter the mind of French literary giant Honor  de Balzac through a study of nine of his greatest characters and the novels they inhabit. \u003ci\u003eBalzac's Lives\u003c\/i\u003e illuminates the writer's life, era, and work in a completely original way.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBalzac, more than anyone, invented the nineteenth-century novel, and Oscar Wilde went so far as to say that Balzac had invented the nineteenth century. But it was above all through the wonderful, unforgettable, extravagant characters that Balzac dreamed up and made flesh--entrepreneurs, bankers, inventors, industrialists, poets, artists, bohemians of both sexes, journalists, aristocrats, politicians, prostitutes--that he brought to life the dynamic forces of an era that ushered in our own. Peter Brooks's \u003ci\u003eBalzac's Lives\u003c\/i\u003e is a vivid and searching portrait of a great novelist as revealed through the fictional lives he imagined.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter Brooks\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1681374498\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781681374499\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/06\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.70w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/25\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeter Brooks\u003c\/b\u003e has been teaching and writing about Honoré de Balzac for many years. Among his books are the nonfiction volumes \u003ci\u003eThe Melodramatic Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eReading for the Plot\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePsychoanalysis and Storytelling\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTroubling Confessions\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRealist Vision\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHenry James Goes to Paris\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eFlaubert in the Ruins of Paris\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as two novels, \u003ci\u003eWorld Elsewhere\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Emperor's Body\u003c\/i\u003e. In 2014 Brooks edited a collection of Balzac's stories for New York Review Books, \u003ci\u003eThe Human Comedy: Selected Stories\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the Sterling Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature at Yale.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peter Brooks","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44047580201215,"sku":"9781681374499","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ff7514d2-52cc-4a5c-9f87-8573b6f71760.jpg?v=1684991028","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/balzacs-lives-peter-brooks-9781681374499","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}