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<p>Written over a period of twenty-five years, this first volume in a trilogy is intended to depict in the life and work of writers of different nationalities—Balzac, Dickens, and Dostoevsky—the world-portraying novelist. Though these essays were composed at fairly long intervals, their essential uniformity has prompted Zweig to bring these three great novelists of the nineteenth century together; to show them as writers who, for the very reason that they contrast with each other, also complete one another in ways which makes them round our concept of the epic portrayers of the world.</p> <p>Zweig considers Balzac, Dickens, and Dostoevsky the supremely great novelists of the nineteenth century. He draws between the writer of one outstanding novel, and what he terms a true novelist—an epic master, the creator of an almost unending series of pre-eminent romances. The novelist in this higher sense is endowed with encyclopedic genius, is a universal artist, who constructs a cosmos, peopling it with types of his own making, giving it laws of gravity that are unique to these fi gures.</p> <p>Each of the novelists featured in Zweig's book has created his own sphere: Balzac, the world of s

Author

Stefan Zweig, with a new introduction by Laurence Mintz

Publisher

Routledge

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781412810470

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Fiction, Philosophy