The bureaucrats / edited and with an introduction by Marco Diani ; translated by Charles Foulkes.

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press , 1993.Description: xxx, 247 p. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 9780810109872
Uniform titles:
  • Employés . English
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • FIC BAL
LOC classification:
  • PQ2165 .E4613 1993
Summary: 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.
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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.

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