num_pages: 272
description: "With all his accustomed brilliance of perception and style, the novelist-critic V. S. Pritchett here gives us a penetrating full-scale portrait of the most extravagant of all the great novelists - the massively gifted, massively human Balzac, who was so profoundly a man of his times that his own life - as much as his monumental La Comédie humaine - uniquely embodies the experience of France from the rise of Napoleon to the fateful Revolution of 1848. "[from the inside cover]
language: English
title: Balzac
titlecomplete: Balzac
characters: Honoré de Balzac
genres: Biography
ratings_count: 24
publisher: Knopf; [distributed by Random House]