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Balzac's reputation is as a novelist. But short stories make up over half La Comedie humaine, besides scores of other tales and articles. Short forms appear early in Balzac's output, and shape his work throughout his career. Balzac's Shorter Fictions looks at the whole of this corpus, at the nature of short fiction, and at how Balzac's novels developed from his stories - at the links between literary genesis and genre. It explores the roles of short fiction in Balzac's creation, its part in producing effects of virtuality and perspective, and reflects ultimately on the relationship between brevity and length in La Comedie humaine. This, the first complete English-language study of Balzac's work for over forty years, synthesizes recent research on Balzac's practice within the context of modern thought on the author. It is an indispensable book for students and scholars of Balzac, and for all those interested in prose fiction.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Balzac's Shorter Fictions
• Subtitle: Genesis and Genre
• Author: Tim Farrant
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 368
• EAN: 9780198151975
• ISBN: 0198151977
• ID: 04522210
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Weight: 557 g
• Dimensions: 242 × 162 × 22 mm
• Date of publishing: 14. February 2002

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