Honoré de Balzac

By Peter Brooks

A book on the experience of reading Honor de Balzac's La Com die Humaine which recounts the process of Peter Brooks's own discovery of Balzac.

This volume is a personal account of coming to terms with Balzac: moving from more classical and restrained authors to the highly-coloured melodramatic novels of the Human Comedy, which give us the dynamics of a new and challenging world on the threshold of modernity. It shows readers how to read, and to love reading, Balzac, and how to engage with his vast work.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198994486
• ISBN13: 9780198994480
• Release Date: November 2026
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 176 Pages