The Metaphysics of Balzac. As Found in "The Magic Skin," "Louis Lambert," and "Seraphita,"

The Metaphysics of Balzac. As Found in

Author: Ursula Newell Gestefeld

Publisher: Legare Street Press

Published: 2023-07-18

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781021617682

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For students of French literature and philosophy, the works of Honoré de Balzac offer fertile ground for exploration of the human condition. In this insightful analysis, Ursula Newell Gestefeld explores the metaphysical themes that run through Balzac's novels, focusing on The Magic Skin, Louis Lambert, and Seraphita. From the meaning of life to the nature of consciousness, this book offers valuable insights into one of France's greatest literary minds. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

The Metaphysics of Balzac

The Metaphysics of Balzac PDF

Author: Ursula Newell Gestefeld

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-07-12

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13: 9780259526131

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Excerpt from The Metaphysics of Balzac: As Found in "the Magic Skin," "Louis Lambert," and "Seraphita" All existence is interpretation. As living human beings we are interpreters of our own nature through experience of its possibilities. Confronted first by its depths, we are attracted to its heights through the drawing power of our ideals, a power that impels us upward, however strong the gravity of our sensuous nature. What is natural is succeeded by what is pos sible. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Balzac's Lives

Balzac's Lives PDF

Author: Peter Brooks

Publisher: New York Review of Books

Published: 2020-10-06

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 1681374501

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Enter the mind of French literary giant Honoré de Balzac through a study of nine of his greatest characters and the novels they inhabit. Balzac's Lives illuminates the writer's life, era, and work in a completely original way. Balzac, more than anyone, invented the nineteenth-century novel, and Oscar Wilde went so far as to say that Balzac had invented the nineteenth century. But it was above all through the wonderful, unforgettable, extravagant characters that Balzac dreamed up and made flesh—entrepreneurs, bankers, inventors, industrialists, poets, artists, bohemians of both sexes, journalists, aristocrats, politicians, prostitutes—that he brought to life the dynamic forces of an era that ushered in our own. Peter Brooks’s Balzac’s Lives is a vivid and searching portrait of a great novelist as revealed through the fictional lives he imagined.

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