242 pages
German language
Published July 15, 1985 by P. Lang.
Balzacs Contes drôlatiques
der junge Balzac vor dem Entstehen der Comédie Humaine : Unterhaltung als Wirkungsabsicht durch Literatur Europäische Hochschulschriften. Reihe XIII, Französische Sprache und Literatur,
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A collection of stories with a mediaeval theme rather after the style of Rabelais. Early editions were illustrated by Gustav Dore and were published by Garnier Freres of Paris. The stories range from the absurd to the downright grim but the illustrations give them a life of their own. Rather off-putting to the reader used to modern French, the stories are written in an archaic French that is not always easy to interpret.
Subjects
- Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850.