BALZAC, Honoré de.
Droll Stories: Thirty Tales By Honoré de Balzac.
The Heritage Press Edition of Honoré de Balzac's Droll Stories
New York: The Heritage Press, 1939.
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Item Number: RRB-148802
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The Heritage Press edition of collection of satirical tales. Octavo, bound in three-quarters morocco by Morrell with gilt titles to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, frontispiece, with black and white illustrations. In fine condition. Translated into modern English by Jacques Le Clercq. Illustrated by Boris Artzybasheff.
"One of the great novelists of all literature" Balzac's genius consists in his dynamic, unflagging, creative vigour; his superabundant imagination" his masterly portrayal of passions and his grasp of such widely differing subjects" (Harvey & Heseltine, 44-45). Honoré de Balzac was a foundational figure in 19th-century French literature, best known for his monumental series La Comédie humaine, which sought to depict the full range of French society in the post-Napoleonic era. 'Droll Stories' originally published in three series between 1832 and 1837, is a collection of ribald and satirical tales modeled on the style of Boccaccio and Rabelais. Set in Renaissance and medieval France, these stories depart from the psychological realism of Balzac’s La Comédie humaine and instead embrace a bawdy, parodic tone that explores human folly, sexual desire, and ecclesiastical hypocrisy with irreverent wit.
Droll Stories: Thirty Tales By Honoré de Balzac.
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