Living in the World: Peter Brooks on Balzac - Los Angeles Review of Books
Balzac’s great “Comédie humaine” offers a middle way between speculative fiction and autofiction.
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Balzac’s great “Comédie humaine” offers a middle way between speculative fiction and autofiction.
Charles Perrault\x92s text, the first post-Renaissance treatise on architecture, holds that reason and national taste determine architectural design.
This volume explores engagement with Greco-Roman Antiquity across Europe and beyond in the 18th century. Approximately 100 experts, in some 140 articles from “Academy” to “Wallpaper”, show how Classical and rival antiquities were perceived and studied during the age of Enlightenment, revolution and scientific progress, and how they served the formulation and affirmation of new ideals. The survey covers the period between the outbreak of the Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes in France in 1687 and the reorganization of Europe at the Congress of Vienna in 1815. Articles e...