The bureaucrats
Balzac, Honore de (1799-1850)
The bureaucrats / edited and with an introduction by Marco Diani ; translated by Charles Foulkes. - Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press , 1993. - xxx, 247 p. ; 21 cm.
Balzac's The Bureaucrats analyzes the state bureaucracy of 19th-century France. He satirizes its ranks of civil servants in a biting critique. The novel contains recognizable themes of Balzac's work--obsessive ambition, conspiracy and human pettiness, and a melodramatic struggle between social "good" and the evils of folly and stupidity.
9780810109872
93037923
France---Politics and government
Political fiction
PQ2165 / .E4613 1993
FIC BAL
The bureaucrats / edited and with an introduction by Marco Diani ; translated by Charles Foulkes. - Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press , 1993. - xxx, 247 p. ; 21 cm.
Balzac's The Bureaucrats analyzes the state bureaucracy of 19th-century France. He satirizes its ranks of civil servants in a biting critique. The novel contains recognizable themes of Balzac's work--obsessive ambition, conspiracy and human pettiness, and a melodramatic struggle between social "good" and the evils of folly and stupidity.
9780810109872
93037923
France---Politics and government
Political fiction
PQ2165 / .E4613 1993
FIC BAL
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