Artist Stories in La Comedie Humaine
by
Diana Knight
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2017
"Texts about paintings, painters and sculptors are obvious test cases for issues of representation. A significant corpus of artist stories is scattered through Honore de Balzac's Comedie humaine which, from Marx to Lukacs to Roland Barthes's enormously influential S/Z (1970), has been a key literary...