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Balzac, Honore de: Correspondance, Tome I (1809-1835).(Brief article)(Book review)

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From: Biography
Date: 20070622
Author:Roy, Vincent

Balzac, Honore de Correspondance, Tome I (1809-1835). Honore de Balzac. Ed. Roger Pierrot and Herve Yon. Paris: Gallimard, "Bibliotheque de La Pleiade," 2007. 1602 pp. Euro69.

Balzac's correspondence shows a writer haunted, harassed, obsessed by his creation. And yet, if the work is central, it is not considered as sacred: the man who wrote the Comedie Humaine is larger than it. The letters show a nature superhuman and heroic, determined to build a legend. "I go, I go to work like the gambler to his game; I sleep five hours only. I work eighteen." He sees himself as "a kind ...

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