Balzac — 作者 (28)
风雅生活论 [图书] 豆瓣
巴尔扎克在前言中证明，他在一个永不发生变化的社会里，自命为风雅教授是有道理的。
伟大的文明产生的不朽、宏伟的艺术让位于风雅——这一全新的概念表示的是日常生活中的仪表和个人的虚荣。
论文从原因谈到结果，从风雅生活的基础知识谈到服装款式，不要认为这样就丧失了力度和深度。因为一提起巴尔扎克，任何时尚爱好者都会想到他是哲学家、美学家。在简单-整洁-和谐三件套之上，论文的作者发现了作为风雅构成要素的必不可少的统一性。这个统一原则对巴尔扎克的作品体系影响深远。
《风雅生活论》把转瞬即逝的时尚提升为有自己原则和规律的生活方式，创建了社交人的唯物主义——其理念等同于智者的唯物主义，初步推动一种风流雅士的时尚文学。这篇论文之后，诗人和小说家得以大谈服饰和饰物盒而不用担心有失身份。
伟大的文明产生的不朽、宏伟的艺术让位于风雅——这一全新的概念表示的是日常生活中的仪表和个人的虚荣。
论文从原因谈到结果，从风雅生活的基础知识谈到服装款式，不要认为这样就丧失了力度和深度。因为一提起巴尔扎克，任何时尚爱好者都会想到他是哲学家、美学家。在简单-整洁-和谐三件套之上，论文的作者发现了作为风雅构成要素的必不可少的统一性。这个统一原则对巴尔扎克的作品体系影响深远。
《风雅生活论》把转瞬即逝的时尚提升为有自己原则和规律的生活方式，创建了社交人的唯物主义——其理念等同于智者的唯物主义，初步推动一种风流雅士的时尚文学。这篇论文之后，诗人和小说家得以大谈服饰和饰物盒而不用担心有失身份。
Old Man Goriot [图书] 豆瓣
Eugene wants to get on in the world. So he has come to Paris, where the streets teem with chancers, criminals and social climbers - and everyone is out for what they can get. When he finds a place to stay at a shabby boarding house, he sees a potential plan to make a fortune: the two beautiful, aristocratic women who mysteriously come at night to visit the lonely old lodger Goriot. Could they bring him the status and acceptance he craves? In the city nothing is as it seems though. Soon Eugene gets out of his depth in a world of greed and obsession that he could never have imagined. One that can only end in terrible tragedy.
Lost Illusions (Modern Library Classics) [图书] 豆瓣
"Balzac [was] the master unequalled in the art of painting humanity as it exists in modern society," wrote George Sand. "He searched and dared everything."
Written between 1837 and 1843, Lost Illusions reveals, perhaps better than any other of Balzac's ninety-two novels, the nature and scope of his genius. The story of Lucien Chardon, a young poet from Angoulême who tries desperately to make a name for himself in Paris, is a brilliantly realistic and boldly satirical portrait of provincial manners and aristocratic life. Handsome and ambitious but naïve, Lucien is patronized by the beau monde as represented by Madame de Bargeton and her cousin, the formidable Marquise d'Espard, only to be duped by them. Denied the social rank he thought would be his, Lucien discards his poetic aspirations and turns to hack journalism; his descent into Parisian low life ultimately leads to his own death.
"Balzac was both a greedy child and an indefatigable observer of a greedy age, at once a fantastic and a genius, yet possessing a simple core of common sense," noted V. S. Pritchett, one of his several biographers. Another, André Maurois, concluded: "Balzac was by turns a saint, a criminal, an honest judge, a corrupt judge, a minister, a fob, a harlot, a duchess, and always a genius."
This Modern Library edition presents the translation by Kathleen Raine.
Written between 1837 and 1843, Lost Illusions reveals, perhaps better than any other of Balzac's ninety-two novels, the nature and scope of his genius. The story of Lucien Chardon, a young poet from Angoulême who tries desperately to make a name for himself in Paris, is a brilliantly realistic and boldly satirical portrait of provincial manners and aristocratic life. Handsome and ambitious but naïve, Lucien is patronized by the beau monde as represented by Madame de Bargeton and her cousin, the formidable Marquise d'Espard, only to be duped by them. Denied the social rank he thought would be his, Lucien discards his poetic aspirations and turns to hack journalism; his descent into Parisian low life ultimately leads to his own death.
"Balzac was both a greedy child and an indefatigable observer of a greedy age, at once a fantastic and a genius, yet possessing a simple core of common sense," noted V. S. Pritchett, one of his several biographers. Another, André Maurois, concluded: "Balzac was by turns a saint, a criminal, an honest judge, a corrupt judge, a minister, a fob, a harlot, a duchess, and always a genius."
This Modern Library edition presents the translation by Kathleen Raine.
La peau de chagrin [图书] 豆瓣
Balzac's classic philosophical novel about a young man (Raphal) torn between two women, one whom he loves but who does not reciprocate his affections (Foedora, the "woman without a heart") and one who loves him but for whom initially he has only fraternal feelings (Pauline). The sentimental drama is associated with a philosophical one in allegorical form: how does a man live his life ... with intensity but in an existence of short duration, or without desires in a long life? The drama is expressed through the talisman, a wild ass's skin, given to the hero by an old antique dealer. The skin has magical powers: it enables the owner to satisfy any desire, but it shrinks each time it is used. The owner's life is mirrored by the shrinking skin. This edition reproduces the text of the first edition of the novel (1831) and is the only available edition of this version. The book comes with a cd-rom on which the reader will find a critical apparatus prepared by Andrew Oliver, a well-known Balzac scholar.
Eugenie Grandet [图书] 豆瓣
Specially commissioned for the World's Classics, this translation includes a full editorial apparatus.