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WHAT ARE THEY READING?
From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19950820
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Twyla Tharp is reading Honore de Balzac's 1834 novel Pere Goriot. She says she's thinking about creating a dance on one of Balzac's themes, for she's intrigued with the 19th century Frenchman's life of ideas.
The novel - available in a dozen paperback editions - concerns a man obsessed with his daughters. It is one of the masterpieces in the Comedie Humaine series, in which the industrious (85 novels in 20 years) Balzac aimed to present a complete picture of modern civilization.
Tharp (whose 1992 autobiography is When Push Comes to Shove) recently choreographed a new dance for the Hubbard ...
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