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Gambara
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In this novella from Balzac's La Comédie humaine, an impoverished composer named Gambara holds visionary musical theories yet produces incoherent work, playing brilliantly only when drunk. Readers interested in nineteenth-century French literature and depictions of artistic genius and obsession may find it worthwhile.
Honoré de Balzac
Honoré de Balzac was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie humaine, described as a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his magnum opus.
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