Postcard from Paris: A fanboy at the house of Balzac
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Before Tom Wolfe and the New Journalists of the 1960s, and today’s crop of narrative specialists, a driven French writer, swigging up to 50 cups of black coffee a day, was churning out novel after novel devoted to capturing what he called La Comedie Humaine.
Postcard from Paris: A fanboy at the house of Balzac
Postcard from Paris: A fanboy at the house of…
Postcard from Paris: A fanboy at the house of Balzac
Before Tom Wolfe and the New Journalists of the 1960s, and today’s crop of narrative specialists, a driven French writer, swigging up to 50 cups of black coffee a day, was churning out novel after novel devoted to capturing what he called La Comedie Humaine.