La Comédie humaine | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 14 pages of analysis & critique of La Comédie humaine.

La Comédie humaine | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 14 pages of analysis & critique of La Comédie humaine.
This section contains 3,660 words
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Buy the Critical Essay by Joan Dargan

SOURCE: Dargan, Joan. Introduction to Balzac and the Drama of Perspective: The Narrator in Selected Works of La Comédie Humaine, pp. 11-18. Lexington, Ky.: French Forum Publishers, 1985.

In the following essay, Dargan surveys a number of novels in La Comédie humaine written before 1835—Louis Lambert, Le Colonel Chabert, Histoires des treize, and Eugénie Grandet—to analyze the relation between the author and narrator and to trace the development of Balzac's narrative technique.

Le but de profonde moralité caché dans mon livre [La Peau de chagrin] échappe à beaucoup de critiques malveillants, qui ne voient que la forme, et j'avoue que je suis vivement touché lorsque quelque critique veut bien dégager mes intentions de leur sauvage enveloppe. Tous nos maîtres ont mis la moelle dans un os, à l'exemple de la nature.

(Correspondance, 1831)

In 1831 Balzac had just completed his first major work, La Peau de chagrin...

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This section contains 3,660 words
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