Alexis Karklins-Marchay, the world according to Balzac
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Alexis Karklins presents his book “Our world according to Balzac” published by Ellipses editions © Géraldine Aresteanu / Ellipses editions
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Alexis Karklins-Marchay, deputy managing director and partner of the firm Eight Advisory, immersed himself in the gigantic work of Honoré de Balzac.
He demonstrates, through this in-depth study, and through the pages of his book “Our world according to Balzac”, the extreme modernity of the author of “La Comédie humaine”.
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Honoré de Balzac is often called an “ogre of literature”.
And for good reason: this bon vivant, lover of good food and good wines, but also a workaholic - since he could write twelve hours in a row - has built one of the most imposing romantic works of French literature, translated in more than 60 languages and known all over the world.
No less than 90 novels and short stories, published from 1829 to 1855, united under the title "La Comédie humaine".
He talks about everything, or almost, of what made his time.
What if this great work allowed us, almost two centuries later, to better understand the world today?
This is what
Alexis Karklins-Marchay
discovered
when rereading Honoré de Balzac.
He publishes “Our world according to Balzac”, with the Ellipses editions.
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:
"The time of fire will come" was published by Cambourakis editions, in the Sorcières collection.
A dystopia which is reminiscent of certain classics of literature, but which also mixes feminism and ecology.
A choral novel in which
Amélie Beaucour
immersed herself
.
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