{"product_id":"balzacs-paris","title":"Balzac's Paris","description":"In Balzac’s vast Human Comedy, a body of ninety-one completed novels and stories, he endeavoured to create a complete picture of contemporary French society and manners. Within this work is a loving ode to Paris and an incomparable introduction to the first capital of the modern world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo this ageless city he makes a declaration of love in an accumulation of finely observed detail – the cafés, landmarks, avenues, parks – and captures the populace in countless meticulously drawn portraits: its lawyers, grisettes, journalists, concierges, usurers, salesmen, speculators.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBalzac gathered the elements of this Paris by sauntering through it. ‘To saunter is a science,’ he writes, ‘it is the gastronomy of the eye. To take a walk is to vegetate; to saunter is to live.’ Eric Hazan follows in Balzac’s footsteps, criss-crossing the city in the novelist’s outsize boots, running between printers, publishers, coffee merchants, mistresses and friends, stopping for a moment, struck by a detail that would be fixed in Balzac’s photographic memory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMore than a tour of the city, Balzac’s Paris is an attempt to measure the soul of a city as recovered in its finest literature.","brand":"Buchserien.de","offers":[{"title":"Neuware","offer_id":53813177680210,"sku":"9781839767258","price":20.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0615\/7002\/3593\/files\/unnamed_57de894f-7f02-4182-8d51-0cb5293a794c.jpg?v=1782121009","url":"https:\/\/www.buchserien.de\/products\/balzacs-paris","provider":"Buchserien.de","version":"1.0","type":"link"}