The human comedy
Subtitle: selected stories
By: Honoré de Balzac ; edited and with an introduction by Peter Brooks ; translated from the French by Linda Asher, Carol Cosman, and Jordan Stump
Contributors: Brooks, Peter, 1938- editor; Asher, Linda, translator; Cosman, Carol, translator; Stump, Jordan, 1959- translator
Series: New York Review Books classics; New York Review Books classics
Publisher: New York Review Books
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 428
ISBN-13: 9781590176641; 9781590176986
Subjects: Social life and customs; Translations into English; French Short stories; Fiction
Work titles: Comédie humaine
Description: "We think of Honore Balzac as the author of long and fully upholstered novels, stitched together into the magnificent visionary document called The Human Comedy. Yet along with the full-length fiction within The Human Comedy stand many shorter works, and it's here that we get some of his most daring explorations of crime, sexuality, and artistic creation. As Marcel Proust noted, it is in these tales that we detect, under the surface, the mysterious circulation of blood and desire. All are newly translated by three outstanding translators who restore the freshness of Balzac's vivid and highly colored prose"--
Notes: Translation of: Comédie humaine (selections).

Translated from the French.
Table of contents: title: Facino Cane --; title: Another study of womankind --; title: The red inn --; title: Sarrasine --; title: A passion in the desert --; title: Adieu --; title: Z. Marcas --; title: Gobseck --; title: The Duchesse de Langeais.