with all his accustomed brilliance of perception and style, the novelist-critic V.S. Pritchett here give us a penetrating full scale portrait of the most extravagant of all the great novelists_the masssively gifted, massively human Balzac...
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After his brilliant lectures in The Living Novel on the English, Russian and French novelists, and his celebrated portrait of a spendthrift in A Cab at the Door, V.S. Pritchett turns his command of irony and comedy to the most extravagant of all great novelists, Honoré de Balzac.
VS Pritchett was a novelist, short-story writer, critic and traveller. He was the leading critic of the New Statesman.
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