The Modern Language Review, January 1st, 2001
Honore de Balzac: Memoire de la critique. Ed. by STEPHANE VACHON. Paris: Presses de l'Universite de Paris-Sorbonne. 1999. 560 pp. 199 F.
Given the recent bicentenary of Balzac's birth and the 150th anniversary of his death, it is appropriate that reprints of notable if somewhat arbitrarily selected critiques of Balzac (Ambriere, Barberis, Lukacs, Mozet) should be followed by this collection of landmark critical texts that founded and forged what have become Balzac studies. As Stephane Vachon shows in his introductory 'chemins de traverse' of 'l'etat de la critique', Balzac's status as a lat...
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