BALZAC: A BIOGRAPHY
Book ID/图书代码： 11701217B98121
English Summary/英文概要： In the first major English biography of Honore de Balzac for over fifty years, Graham Robb has produced a compelling portrait of the great French novelist whose powers of creation were matched only by his self-destructive tendencies. As colorful as the world he described, Balzac is the perfect subject for biography: a relentless seducer whose successes were as spectacular as his catastrophes; a passionate collector, inventor, explorer, and political campaigner; a mesmerizing storyteller with the power to make his fantasies come true. Balzac’s early life was a struggle against literary disappointment and poverty, and he learned his trade by writing a series of lurid commercial novels. Robb shows how Balzac’s craving for wealth, fame, and happiness produced a series of hare-brained entrepreneurial schemes which took him to the remotest parts of Europe and into a love affair with a Polish countess whom he courted for fifteen years by correspondence. Out of these experiences emerged some of the finest novels in the Realist tradition. Skillfully interweaving the life with the novels, Robb presents Balzac as one of the great tragi-comic heroes of the nineteenth century, a man whose influence both in and outside his native France has been, and still is, immense.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 格雷厄姆·罗布(Graham Robb)撰写了一部堪称史诗般的文学传记，书中的每一页都生动地描写了巴尔扎克。
巴尔扎克生动地展现了他所描绘的多姿多彩的世界，但同时也是最令人惊讶的例外，他是传记的完美主题。罗柏巧妙地将生活与作品交织在一起，为这位19世纪最伟大的悲喜剧英雄之一描绘了一幅不可磨灭的、引人入胜的肖像，这位英雄在他的祖国法国国内外的影响一直是，而且现在仍然是无限的。
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About the Author/作者介绍： 格雷厄姆·罗布(Graham Robb)1958年出生于曼彻斯特，曾任牛津大学埃克塞特学院院士。英国作家、历史学家。1987年至1990年间担任牛津大学埃克塞特学院研究员一职，自1998年起成为英国皇家文学学会会员。2009年被授予法兰西艺术与文学勋章骑士勋位(艺术与文学骑士勋章)，2012年被授予巴黎市金质奖章(Grande Médaille de la Ville de Paris)。他和妻子玛格丽特住在英格兰-苏格兰边境。
罗布出版有多部法国文学与历史方面的著作。他于1997年出版的传记体文学作品《维克多·雨果》(Victor Hugo)获得英国皇家文学学会颁发的海涅曼图书奖(Heinemann Award)和惠特布雷德传记奖（Whitbread Biography Award），2000年出版的《兰波》(Rimbaud)一书入围塞缪尔·约翰逊奖(Samuel Johnson Prize)最终候选名单，并被《纽约时报》评为年度“编辑之选”书籍。《发现法国》(2007年)获得了达夫·库珀奖和英国皇家文学学会翁达杰奖。新作《巴黎人：探寻巴黎历史的神奇之旅》(Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris)荣登《星期日泰晤士报》(Sunday Times)十大畅销书榜单。Graham Robb is an acclaimed historian and biographer, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. He has won the Whitbread Biography Prize and the Heinemann Award for Victor Hugo, as well as the Ondaatje Prize and Duff Cooper Prize for The Discovery of France. He lives on the English-Scottish border (and within a day’s ride of one hundred and seventy cols).
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