Prometheus, or The Life of Balzac

Andre Morua, a classic of French literature of the 20th century, the author of the famous novelized biographies of Dumas, Balzac, Georges Sand and others, is considered a genuine master of psychological prose. Victor Hugo on the day of the Balzac funeral in the cemetery, Pere Lashez said: All his books form one book, lively, brilliant, deep, where a terrible, terrible and at the same time our real modernity lives and moves. Since then, there has been a huge library dedicated to the creator of the Human Comedy: memories, research, novels and essays, meticulously prescribed biographies and comments. However, the Book of Murois, Prometheus, or Balzac"s Life, occupies a very special place here. A year after year, a biographer is drawn by the extraordinary life of his character: a workaholic who thirsts for glory and money, an eternal debtor and an ardent lover, brave pioneer, researcher of society, French history and modernity - Morois tells about all these licks of Balzakian erudition and temperament