6/7/2023 0 Comments The human comedy novel![]() As Marcel Proust noted, it is in these tales that we detect, under the surface, the mysterious circulation of blood and desire. It’s in the short fiction that we get some of his most daring explorations of crime, sexuality, and artistic creation. Drawn always to the tradition of oral storytelling-to the human voice telling of experience-and to the kinds of reactions produced in the listeners to stories, Balzac repeatedly dramatizes both telling and listening, and the interactions of men and women around the story told. Yet along with the full-length fiction within The Human Comedy stand many shorter works, among the most brilliant and forceful of his fictions. ![]() ![]() We think of Honoré de Balzac as the author of long and fully upholstered novels, stitched together into the magnificent visionary document called The Human Comedy. ![]()
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