Rev. of The misfit of the family: Balzac and the social forms of sexuality, by Michael Lucey

Rev. of Balzac et la figure mythique dan les Etudes philosophiques, by Brigitte Mera

Rev. of Myth and guilt consciousness in Balzac, by J.H. Mazaheri

Balzac has long been associated with excess, both personal and literary, whether it be his abundant literary output, his effort to depict all aspects of nineteenth-century French society, his commercial ambitions which inevitably ended in failure, or the minute descriptions which characterize his no...