The Human Comedy: Selected Stories基本信息Format Paperback | 464 pagesDimensions 100 x 170 x 20mm | 200gPublication date 21 Jan 2014Publisher The New York Review of Books, IncImprint NYRB ClassicsLanguage EnglishEdition Statement MainISBN10 1590176642ISBN13 9781590176641页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准书籍简介编者是Peter Brooks，译者是Linda Asher，Carol Cosman和Jordan Stump。巴尔扎克是十九世纪法国最伟大的作家之一，也是世界闻名的现实主义大师。他以毕生心血创作的由九十多部独立而又有所联系的小说组成的巨著《人间喜剧》，是人类文学宝库中的一朵奇葩。他用生花妙笔使几千个人物活跃在书中，而且对这些人物之间的本质关系进行了深刻的剖析，展现了法国社会从封建主义向资本义过渡时期的历史画卷。Edit ... 展开完整描述 ▼
The Human Comedy: Selected Stories
基本信息
Format Paperback | 464 pages
Dimensions 100 x 170 x 20mm | 200g
Publication date 21 Jan 2014
Publisher The New York Review of Books, Inc
Imprint NYRB Classics
Language English
Edition Statement Main
ISBN10 1590176642
ISBN13 9781590176641
页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准
书籍简介
编者是Peter Brooks，译者是Linda Asher，Carol Cosman和Jordan Stump。
巴尔扎克是十九世纪法国最伟大的作家之一，也是世界闻名的现实主义大师。他以毕生心血创作的由九十多部独立而又有所联系的小说组成的巨著《人间喜剧》，是人类文学宝库中的一朵奇葩。他用生花妙笔使几千个人物活跃在书中，而且对这些人物之间的本质关系进行了深刻的剖析，展现了法国社会从封建主义向资本义过渡时期的历史画卷。
Edited by Peter Brooks
Translated by Linda Asher, Carol Cosman and Jordan Stump
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.
An NYRB Classics Original
Characters from every corner of society and all walks of life—lords and ladies, businessmen and military men, poor clerks, unforgiving moneylenders, aspiring politicians, artists, actresses, swindlers, misers, parasites, sexual adventurers, crackpots, and more—move through the pages of The Human Comedy, Balzac’s multivolume magnum opus, an interlinked chronicle of modernity in all its splendor and squalor. The Human Comedy includes the great roomy novels that have exercised such a sway over Balzac’s many literary inheritors, from Dostoyevsky and Henry James to Marcel Proust; it also contains an array of short fictions in which Balzac is at his most concentrated and forceful. Nine of these, all newly translated, appear in this volume, and together they provide an unequaled overview of a great writer’s obsessions and art. Here are “The Duchesse de Langeais,” “A Passion in the Desert,” and “Sarrasine”; tales of madness, illicit passion, ill-gotten gains, and crime. What unifies them, Peter Brooks points out in his introduction, is an incomparable storyteller’s fascination with the power of storytelling, while throughout we also detect what Proust so admired: the “mysterious circulation of blood and desire.”
作者简介
奥诺雷·德·巴尔扎克（Honoré·de Balzac，1799年5月20日－1850年8月18日），法国小说家，被称为“现代法国小说之父”，生于法国中部图尔城一个中产者家庭，1816年入法律学校学习。
毕业后不顾父母反对，毅然走上文学创作道路，但是第一部作品五幕诗体悲剧《克伦威尔》却完全失败。而后他与人合作从事滑稽小说和神怪小说的创作，曾一度弃文从商和经营企业，出版名著丛书等，均告失败。商业和企业上的失败使他债台高筑，拖累终身，但也为他日后创作打下了厚实的生活基础。
1829年，他发表长篇小说《朱安党人》，迈出了现实主义创作的第一步，1831年出版的《驴皮记》使他声名大震。1834年，完成对《高老头》的著作，这也是巴尔扎克最优秀的作品之一。他要使自己成为文学事业上的拿破仑，在30至40年代以惊人的毅力创作了大量作品，一生创作甚丰，写出了91部小说，塑造了两千四百七十二个栩栩如生的人物形象，合称《人间喜剧》。《人间喜剧》被誉为“资本主义社会的百科全书”。但他由于早期的债务和写作的艰辛，终因劳累过度于1850年8月18日与世长辞。
Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850), one of the greatest and most influential of novelists, was born in Tours and educated at the Collège de Vendôme and the Sorbonne. He began his career as a pseudonymous writer of sensational potboilers before achieving success with a historical novel, The Chouans. Balzac then conceived his great work, La Comédie humaine, an ongoing series of novels in which he set out to offer a complete picture of contemporary society and manners. Always working under an extraordinary burden of debt, Balzac wrote some eighty-five novels in the course of his last twenty years, including such masterpieces as Père Goriot, Eugénie Grandet, Lost Illusions, and Cousin Bette. In 1850, he married Eveline Hanska, a rich Polish woman with whom he had long conducted an intimate correspondence. Three months later he died. In addition to the present collection, NYRB Classics publishes a translation of Balzac’s The Unknown Masterpiece and Gambara.
Peter Brooks is the author of several books, including The Melodramatic Imagination, Reading for the Plot, Psychoanalysis and Storytelling, Troubling Confessions, Realist Vision, Henry James Goes to Paris, and Flaubert in the Ruins of Paris, as well as two novels, World Elsewhere and The Emperors’ Body; and essays and book reviews in many places. He edited Balzac’s The Human Comedy: Short Stories for NYRB, and also Vivant Denon’s No Tomorrow. He is Sterling Professor of Comparative Literature Emeritus at Yale, and also taught recently at Princeton. He divides his life between Alexandria, VA and New Haven, CT.
Linda Asher has translated works by Milan Kundera, Georges Simenon, Victor Hugo, Jean-Pierre Vernant, Restif de la Bretonne, and many others. A former fiction editor at The New Yorker, she has and ASCAP Deems Taylor translation prizes and is a Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters of the French Republic.
Carol Cosman is a translator of French literature and letters. Her work includes Exile and the Kingdom by Albert Camus, Colonel Chabert by Honoré de Balzac, America Day by Day by Simone de Beauvoir, The Elementary Forms of Religious Life by Emile Durkheim, and The Family Idiot (a study of Flaubert) by Jean-Paul Sartre.
Jordan Stump is a professor of French at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln; the author, most recently, of The Other Book: Bewilderments of Fiction; and the translator of some twenty works of (mostly) contemporary French prose by authors such as Marie NDiaye, Eric Chevillard, Antoine Volodine, and Jean-Philippe Toussaint. His translation of Claude Simon’s The Jardin des Plantes won the French-American Foundation’s annual translation prize in 2001.
