Many people among them Henry James) have considered Balzac tobe the greatest of all novelists. Eugenie Grandet, his spare,classical story of a girl whose life is blighted by her father'shysterical greed, goes a long way to justifying that opinion. Oneof the most magnificent of his tales of early nineteenth-centuryFrench provincial life, this novel is the work of a writer on whomnothing was lost, and who represents most fully the ability of thehuman animal to understand and illuminate its own condition.
Translated By Ellen Marriage With An Introduction By Fredric R.Jameson
Fredric R. Jameson is William A. Lane, Jr. Professor ofComparative Literature at Duke University in North Carolina. Hispublications include Sartre: The Origins of a Style, Signatures ofthe Visible, and Post-modernism, or, The Cultural Logic of LateCapitalism, with Aesthetics of the Geopolitical forthcoming.--This text refers to the Hardcoveredition.
【作者简介】
Balzac was born in 1799, the son of a civil servant. At the ageof thirty - heavily in debt and with an unsucessful past behind him- he started work on the first of what were to become a total ofninety novels and short stories that make up The Human Comedy. Hedied in 1850. M. A. Crawford has translated many of Balzac's novelsfor the Penguin Classics
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