Quest for the Absolute

Honore de Balzac

Quest for the Absolute
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Dedalus Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Published
26 May 1998
Pages
240
ISBN
9781873982587

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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