Droll Stories - Softcover

De Balzac, Honore

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1634505115 ISBN 13: 9781634505116

Verlag: Skyhorse Publishing, 2015

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Críticas:

"One is nearer to understanding the great writers of the ancient world if one understands them as Balzac did." Marcel Proust "[Balzac] is himself a figure more extraordinary than any he drew." Henry James "One of the first among the greatest, one of the highest among the best He ransacked vice, he dissected passion." Victor Hugo "One is nearer to understanding the great writers of the ancient world if one understands them as Balzac did." Marcel Proust "[Balzac] is himself a figure more extraordinary than any he drew." Henry James "One of the first among the greatest, one of the highest among the best He ransacked vice, he dissected passion." Victor Hugo

Reseña del editor:

From the great French novelist comes this long-unavailable collection of tales in the tradition of Boccaccio's Decameron. Balzac's Contes Drolatiques, or Droll Stories, were originally published in three volumes in the 1830s. Set in medieval Europe, these stories were Balzac's attempt to write in the great tradition of Rabelais and Boccaccio, to render the Middle Ages with a touch of raunchy humor, and to provide a delightful portrait of medieval France. Balzac took the old themes that had delighted his ancestors the tales of faithless wives and confiding husbands, of monks incredibly endowed for amorous athleticism, of lusty wenches and adventurous lads, and of great bouts of eating and drinking. Droll Stories has always been an essential part of Balzac's work when published in French, but it has been excluded from the definitive English editions. This book presents all three volumes of this classic and enduring work. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fiction novels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

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• Verlag: Skyhorse Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1634505115
• ISBN 13: 9781634505116
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 572