Author: Honoré de BalzacPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 262
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Comédie Humaine: the quest of the absolute (La recherche de l'absolu) 1901
Author: Honoré de BalzacLa recherche de l'absolu
Author: Honoré de BalzacPublisher:
ISBN: 9782080707550
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 308
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" je parle pour les gens habitués à trouver de la sagesse dans la feuille qui tombe, des problèmes gigantesques dans la fumée qui s'élève, des théories dans les vibrations de la lumière, de la pensée dans les marbres, et le plus horrible des mouvements dans l'immobilité, je me place au point précis où la science touche à la folie... " Balzac, Théorie de la démarche. La Recherche de l'Absolu est l'histoire d'un bourgeois flamand, Balthazar Claës, qu'une conversation de hasard lance à corps perdu à la recherche du secret de la matière. Son intuition géniale le mènera bel et bien jusqu'au bord de la révélation, mais la passion exclusive de la chimie dévorera tout sur son passage.
La recherche de l'absolu
Author: Alexander J. WilliamsonPublisher:
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Languages : fr
Pages : 1538
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The Quest of the Absolute
Author: Honoré de BalzacPublisher:
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Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 412
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La Recherche de l'absolu. Balthazar; or, Science and Love. Translated by William Robson
Author: Honoré de BalzacArt of the Everyday
Author: Ruth Bernard YeazellPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691127262
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Realist novels are celebrated for their detailed attention to ordinary life. But two hundred years before the rise of literary realism, Dutch painters had already made an art of the everyday--pictures that served as a compelling model for the novelists who followed. By the mid-1800s, seventeenth-century Dutch painting figured virtually everywhere in the British and French fiction we esteem today as the vanguard of realism. Why were such writers drawn to this art of two centuries before? What does this tell us about the nature of realism? In this beautifully illustrated and elegantly written book, Ruth Yeazell explores the nineteenth century's fascination with Dutch painting, as well as its doubts about an art that had long challenged traditional values. After showing how persistent tensions between high theory and low genre shaped criticism of novels and pictures alike, Art of the Everyday turns to four major novelists--Honoré de Balzac, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, and Marcel Proust--who strongly identified their work with Dutch painting. For all these writers, Dutch art provided a model for training themselves to look closely at the particulars of middle-class life. Yet even as nineteenth-century novelists strove to create illusions of the real by modeling their narratives on Dutch pictures, Yeazell argues, they chafed at the model. A concluding chapter on Proust explains why the nineteenth century associated such realism with the past and shows how the rediscovery of Vermeer helped resolve the longstanding conflict between humble details and the aspirations of high art.
The New Wave
Author: James MonacoPublisher: UNET 2 Corporation
ISBN: 0970703953
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Three decades after its first publication, The New Wave is still considered one of the fundamental texts on the French film movement of the same name. Led by filmmakers as influential as Truffaut and Godard, the New Wave was a seminal moment in cinematic history, and The New Wave has been hailed as the most complete book ever written about it. The New Wave tells the story of the New Wave through examinations of five of the most important directors of the era: Truffaut, Godard, Chabrol, Rohmer, and Rivette. With detailed notes and over fifty breathtaking stills, the book has appealed both to academics and interested novices alike. The thirtieth anniversary edition includes a new afterword by the author. Praise for the first edition of The New Wave: “The most complete book I know on the five most important directors of the New Wave.” - Costa-Gavras “At last a book that intelligently and critically examines that remarkable phenomenon known as the New Wave. Not just a book for film buffs, it is essential reading for anyone interested in the interrelations between art, politics, and life in the second half of the twentieth century. A remarkable achievement.” - Richard Roud, Founder, New York Film Festival “There is a genuine kind of honesty at work in the writing: a sense that the author wishes to describe the subject more clearly, help the reader, and not ‘explain’ (in the pompous sense of the word) or criticize for the sake of being superior. It’s refreshing.” - Ted Perry, Museum of Modern Art
The Cambridge Companion to Balzac
Author: Owen HeathcotePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316867382
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
One of the founders of literary realism and the serial novel, Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) was a prolific writer who produced more than a hundred novels, plays and short stories during his career. With its dramatic plots and memorable characters, Balzac's fiction has enthralled generations of readers. 'La Comédie humaine', the vast collection of works in which he strove to document every aspect of nineteenth-century French society, has influenced writers from Flaubert, Zola and Proust to Dostoevsky and Oscar Wilde. This Companion provides a critical reappraisal of Balzac, combining studies of his major novels with guidance on the key narrative and thematic features of his writing. Twelve chapters by world-leading specialists encompass a wide spectrum of topics such as the representation of history, philosophy and religion, the plight of the struggling artist, gender and sexuality, and Balzac's depiction of the creative process itself.
The Dream of an Absolute Language
Author: Lynn R. WilkinsonPublisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791429266
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Traces the reception of Swedenborg's doctrine of "correspondences" in French literature and culture from the late 1700s to 1870.
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