Balzacian Montage Configuring

Balzac''s monumental work, La Comédie humaine, consists of a wide range of novels, stories, and other writings which, he maintained, were to be read and understood as a whole. In this illuminating study Allen H. Pasco explores the work''s unifying elements which lend weight to Balzac''s claim.

Pasco articulates the principles against which he measures the unity of La Comédie humaine: the relation o...