Balzac. Le Roman de Sa Vie

Synopsis of Balzac. Le Roman de Sa Vie

«Balzac. Le roman de sa vie» is the biography of Honoré de Balzac written by Stefan Zweig, published by Albin Michel in paperback (472 pages, in French).

Stefan Zweig reconstructs Balzac's life as a novel: burdened by debts, devoted to a colossal body of writing, and dead at fifty-one after marrying the woman he had so long awaited. This posthumous biography, on which he worked for ten years, presents him as a creator who sought to rival God and ended up struck down like Prometheus.

Posthumous work by Stefan Zweig, originally published in German in 1946 under the title «Balzac - Roman seines Lebens». This 1950 French edition includes the translation by Fernand Delmas.

For readers interested in literary biographies, in the figure of Honoré de Balzac, and in the work of the Austrian writer Stefan Zweig.