Seraphita: (and Louis Lambert & The Exiles) (Dedalus European...

The story revolves round the angelic and mysterious hermaphrodite Seraphita who seems to inspire love in all she meets. The battle for her affection leads Wilf and Minna past earthly knowledge and into the deeper mysteries of life. Set against the rugged landscape of 18th century Norway, Seraphita is the most unusual and bizarre novel in Balzac's Comedie Humaine.

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One of the greatest European novelists of the 19 th century.He described his many novels as the Human Comedy;'the history of the human race traced thread by thread'. Born in Tours in 1799 Balzac wrote hundred of books and many thousands of letters, articles and reviews. Fuelled by black coffee, driving by ambition and battling against constant debt, he laboured long into the night for months on end, methodically folding his life into art. He consumed acres of paper and lakes of ink as he fashioned a version of the society and culture in which he moved.He died in 1850, totally exhausted.One of Balzac's first translators.A former bookseller he now works as a literary journalist

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