Quest for the Absolute
Honore de Balzac
Quest for the Absolute
Honore de Balzac
In Balzac’s classic study of obsession, a chance meeting changes Balthazar Claes’ life as it introduces him to alchemy and initiates his quest of the absolute. Throughout, our sympathy is equally divided between Balthazar’s single-minded determination to push back the frontiers of knowledge, and the ruin of his family. The Quest Of The Absolute Was first published in France in 1834 and appears in a new edition from Dedalus, translated by Ellen Marriage and with an afterword and chronology by Christopher Smith.
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