ISBN: 0140442715 
Godina izdanja: 1985
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Honore de Balzac - A Murky Business
Penguin, 1985
222 str.
meki povez
stanje: vrlo dobro

A volume in the Penguin Classics series translated from the French and with an introduction by Herbert J. Hunt.

Characterized by amoral ruthlessness, the politics of A Murky Business would seem to bear out Balzac`s questionable precept.
Set earlier than most of Balzac`s Comedie Humaine, the novel covers the years 1803-6, when Napolean was making himself first Consul and then Emperor. The inclusion of Napoleon himself, as well as figures like Talleyrand and Fouche, makes this a historical novel. But it is also an early example of the detective story, in which the sinister, implacable police agent, Corentin, stalks his way towards vengeance on his aristocractic enemies.


Fiction, Classics