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Indlæser... Balzac: A Biography (1946)af Stefan Zweig
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. 4/14/22 Golden sparks of playful good humor flashed from his dark eyes as he boasted, scoffed, laughed and intoxicated himself and his listeners. When he was able to scatter his bounty there was nobody to compare with Balzac. This baggy biography is a joyful mess, but one explained in a postscript by Zweig's friend Paul Friedenthal. The manuscript was still inchoate at the time of Zweig's death in Brazil. There is something timeless and human in the ambition of both Balzac and Zweig. It is easy for the modern reader to point out their respective hasty myopia but, then, who exactly is above such? There isn't much textual analysis in this hefty tome. It isn't unduly ribald either. The work does portray a symphony of errors throughout Balzac's life from his youthful hubris of penning a verse tragedy on Cromwell through his abortive involvement/investment in publishing, the stock market, art collecting and his much ridiculed rustic sanctuary where the retaining walls kept collapsing. Balzac was doomed in love as well and Zweig pulls no punches in his characterization of Balzac's wife Madame Eve De Hanksa: a bored snob who wanted to shag celebrity. 4.6 stars rounded up 1192. Balzac, by Stefan Zweig (1 Nov 1972) This is probably not the definitive biography of Balzac, but I found it enjoyable reading. Balzac was a fantastic person. While one certainly cannot approve of the immoral life he led, nor Zweig's occasional approval thereof, I took a certain satisfaction that he had such an unhappy life--he reaped the wages of sin. But his life reads like a novel. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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La vie de Balzac est un prodigieux roman. Accabl de dettes, immerg dans un titanesque labeur d' criture, mort cinquante et un ans, juste apr s son mariage avec celle qu'il avait si longtemps attendue, le romancier de La Com die humaine incarne un mythe, celui du cr ateur rivalisant avec Dieu, et foudroy comme Prom th e...Loin d' tre secondaire dans l'oeuvre de Stefan Zweig, cette biographie, publi e apr s sa mort, l'occupa dix ann es durant. Et c'est toute son exp rience d'homme et d' crivain que r sume l'auteur d'Ivresse de la m tamorphose dans cette passionnante vocation de Balzac, en qui il voyait l'un des phares de la litt rature europ enne. No library descriptions found. |
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