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Are you a confirmed Balzacian?-to employ a former expression of Gautier in Jeune France on the morrow following the appearance of that mystic Rabelaisian epic The Magic Skin. Have you experienced while reading at school or clandestinely some stray volume of the Comedie Humaine a sort of exaltation such as no other book had aroused hitherto and few have caused since?' (Excerpt from Introduction)
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