The Human Comedy

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作者: Honore de Balzac

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An NYRB Classics Original

We think of Honoré de 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, among the most brilliant and forceful of his fictions. Drawn always to the tradition of oral storytelling--to the human voice telling of experience--and to the kinds of reactions produced in the listeners to stories, Balzac repeatedly dramatizes both telling and listening, and the interactions of men and women around the story told. It's in the short fiction 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.

Included here are tales of artists, of the moneylender who controls the lives of...

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​ The Human Comedy
Biographical Notes
Title page
Copyright and More Information
Introduction
THE HUMAN COMEDY
FACINO CANE
ANOTHER STUDY OF WOMANKIND
THE RED INN
SARRASINE
A PASSION IN THE DESERT
ADIEU
Z. MARCAS
GOBSECK
THE DUCHESSE DE LANGEAIS
Acknowledgments
Notes