Mathieu Laine publishes “Infantilization: this State-nanny who wants you well” (Presses de la Cité, 2021).
"The novel is the private history of nations."
In one of these formulas of which he had the secret, Balzac knew how to grasp a profound truth anchoring the writing and reading of fictions among the most essential activities.
Published in a time that almost forgot it, an erudite and intelligently constructed essay offers us an insight into the ninety books that make up
La Comédie humaine
.
Not only to entertain us and intoxicate us with these novels appearing in the pantheon of letters but to find ourselves, as if seized by the sudden reflection, disturbing truth, of a literary mirror.
In
Our World According to Balzac
(Ellipses), Alexis Karklins-Marchay invites us on a stroll on the side of the invariants of the French soul.
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The shocking book by essayist Mathieu Laine
While the majority of his work was written under the July Monarchy, Balzac, born under the declining sun of the Directory, seems to have auscultated
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