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Article: Balzac, ou les hieroglyphes de l'imaginaire.(Book Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- July 1, 2003
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Balzac, ou les hieroglyphes de l'imaginaire. By ANNE-MARIE BARON. Paris: Champion. 2002. 213 pp. ISBN 2-7453-0569-7.
This is the third of a series of original and suggestive monographs on Balzac by Anne-Marie Baron. Developing her Le Fils prodige: l'inconscient de 'La Comedie humaine' (Paris: Nathan, 1993) and Balzac ou l'auguste mensonge (Paris: Nathan, 1998), Baron sees Balzac's work as the reflection and reworking of his early, family relationships. Haunted by an adulterous mother and by an absent, even 'petrified', father, Balzac endeavours to redeem that adultery and occupy that absence with an increasingly ambitious, increasingly sublimated, writing. Since this ...