Traces de l'exces: essai sur la nouvelle philosphique de Balzac.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

Publication: The Modern Language Review

Publication Date: 01-OCT-03

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Traces de l'exces: essai sur la nouvelle philosophique de Balzac. By SCOTT LEE. (Romantisme et Modernites, 51) Paris: Champion. 2002. 180 pp. ISBN 2-7453-0573-5.

For too long, Balzac's shorter fiction has been the Cinderella of his output, with, until recently, no substantial study since D. F. McCormick's Balzac et la nouvelle (Paris: Nizet, 1973). But latterly there has been a significant resurgence of interest, with a special number of L'Ecole des Lettres (no. 13, 1998-99, with another to come), my own Balzac's Shorter Fictions (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002), and the present volume by Scott Lee. Lee covers five stories from the Etudes philosophiques, and from the period 1830-35 in...

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