{"product_id":"balzacs-paris","title":"Balzac's Paris","description":"In Balzac’s vast \u003ci\u003eHuman Comedy\u003c\/i\u003e, a body of ninety-one completed novels and stories, he endeavoured to create a complete picture of contemporary French society and manners. Within this work is a loving ode to Paris and an incomparable introduction to the first capital of the modern world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo this ageless city he makes a declaration of love in an accumulation of finely observed detail – the cafés, landmarks, avenues, parks – and captures the populace in countless meticulously drawn portraits: its lawyers, grisettes, journalists, concierges, usurers, salesmen, speculators.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBalzac gathered the elements of this Paris by sauntering through it. ‘To saunter is a science,’ he writes, ‘it is the gastronomy of the eye. To take a walk is to vegetate; to saunter is to live.’ Eric Hazan follows in Balzac’s footsteps, criss-crossing the city in the novelist’s outsize boots, running between printers, publishers, coffee merchants, mistresses and friends, stopping for a moment, struck by a detail that would be fixed in Balzac’s photographic memory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMore than a tour of the city, \u003ci\u003eBalzac’s Paris\u003c\/i\u003e is an attempt to measure the soul of a city as recovered in its finest literature.","brand":"Verso Books","offers":[{"title":"hardback","offer_id":50250822058122,"sku":"zoz1789935620395","price":16.22,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"ebook (UK)","offer_id":50250822090890,"sku":"vlu1789935620396","price":17.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"ebook (US)","offer_id":50250822123658,"sku":"zeq1789935620397","price":7.09,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0774\/9507\/4954\/files\/balzacs-paris_1.jpg?v=1789935624","url":"https:\/\/pulseformv.shop\/products\/balzacs-paris","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}