Balzac. La Comédie humaine: I-XII. - Lot 227

Balzac. La Comédie humaine: I-XII. Untitled, published by Gallimard between 1976 and 1981. La Comédie humaine is a collection of almost 90 novels, short stories and studies of manners, forming a vast social fresco of 19th-century France. In it, Balzac depicts the society of his time with unprecedented depth and precision, exploring themes such as ambition, money, power, family and morality. The Pléiade edition is particularly valuable, with its meticulous presentation and in-depth critical apparatus, allowing each text to be contextualized within Balzac's overall project. We discover the evolution of French society through a multitude of interconnected characters, reappearing from one book to the next, giving La Comédie humaine its character of a "novelistic cycle". In 12 volumes in In douze / In-12 bradel format. Black publisher's leather. Smooth spines decorated with gilded fillets. Duck-blue head edges. Approx. 1600 pages per volume. Complete with all twelve volumes. Excellent condition. Protected by publisher's slipcase and rhodoid sheet.