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...

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Published in:Nineteenth Century French Studies Vol. 40; no. 1/2; pp. 35 - 57
Main Author: BELL, DORIAN
Format: Literary Criticism
Published: University of Nebraska Press Sep2011
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