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Article: Honore de Balzac, Explorer la Comedie humaine.(Review) (book review)
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- Nineteenth-Century French Studies
- Article date:
- September 22, 2000
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Honore de Balzac, Explorer la Comedie humaine. Groupe International de Recherches Balzaciennes (Claude Duchet, Nicole Mozet, Isabelle Tournier). Acamedia 1999. CD-ROM for Mac and PC.
Imagine what it would be like to have the essential corpus of a major author available in a compact edition, light enough to carry everywhere: the combination of high quality and convenience would be irresistible. This was the
logic, anyway, that prompted Honore Balzac (he had not yet acquired the particule) to publish the works of Moliere and La Fontaine in special compressed editions in the mid 1820s, his greatest publishing endeavor. It seemed like an unbeatable idea; ...