Synopsis
Graham Robb has produced a masterpiece literary biography in which Balzac bursts into life on every page.
The living manifestation of the colourful and varied world he described, yet at the same time its most astonishing exception, Balzac is the perfect subject for biography. Robb skilfully interweaves the life with the work to paint an indelible and brilliantly compelling portrait...
Details
18 May 2017576 pages
9781509855674Imprint: Picador
Reviews
Graham Robb does a superb job in bringing Balzac to life in all his preposterousness, while still letting us appreciate his genius.Sunday Independent
Robb’s Balzac is a fine achievement: an impressive work of scholarship and an enormously enjoyable read. In a well-paced narrative, he blends solid evidence with amusing anecdote, patient evaluation with witty aside.Guardian
Intellectually thrilling, psychologically acute and very wittily written: a worthy offering to its subject.Observer
