Honoré de Balzac, Louis Lambert

Michael Tilby (University of Cambridge)

Ed. by Nigel Harkness, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.5.2.05: French Writing and Culture: The Nineteenth-Century , 1800-1900.
Vol. editors: Edward Forman (University of Bristol), Nigel Harkness (University of Newcastle upon Tyne), Tim Unwin (University of Bristol), David Williams (University of Sheffield), Jennifer Yee (University of Oxford)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1832

Places

France (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Novel

Resources

Louis Lambert, which was first published in October 1832 as one of Balzac’s Nouveaux contes philosophiques [New Philosophical Tales], was eventually incorporated, following considerable expansion and modification, in the section of his Comédie humaine [Human Comedy] entitled Études philosophiques [Philosophical Studies]. Significantly longer than the other three stories that comprised the original collection (Maître Cornélius, Madame Firmiani, and L’Auberge rouge [The Red Inn]), it continued the author’s fascination with the destructive nature of thought when pursued to excess. It thus provided a further illustration of what the emergent critic Philarète Chasles had described, i…

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Citation: Tilby, Michael. "Louis Lambert". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 15 November 2015 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=21925, accessed 19 April 2024.]

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