Balzac's Algeria: Realism and the Colonial.
A literary criticism of the novel "La Comédie humaine" by Honoré de Balzac is presented. It focuses on representations of Algeria in the novel, noting that Balzac never depicted it spatially. The author comments on Balzac's response to the 1830 conquest of Algeria by France's Charles X. Other topics...
| Publicado en: | Nineteenth Century French Studies Vol. 40; no. 1/2; pp. 35 - 57 |
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| Formato: | Literary Criticism |
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University of Nebraska Press
Sep2011
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| Sumario: | A literary criticism of the novel "La Comédie humaine" by Honoré de Balzac is presented. It focuses on representations of Algeria in the novel, noting that Balzac never depicted it spatially. The author comments on Balzac's response to the 1830 conquest of Algeria by France's Charles X. Other topics include Balzac's realism and class and socioeconomic difference in the novel. |
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