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My Journey from Paris to Java
"The intoxicating and romantic possibilities of the exotic would be deliberately embraced in the 19th century and cultivated and playfully fashioned into escapist fantasies of armchair travel. Balzac's My Journey from Paris to Java clearly belongs to this genre and deserves to be more widely known as a classic." Foreword, Nigel Barley
Paperback, First English edition, 64 pages
Published
January 2010
by Editions Didier Millet Pte Ltd
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Well, it's Balzac's immagination, so I can't judge its accuracy. But it's good to read another version of my country's history
b. never actually went to java and i never actually bought this book
Sep 21, 2016
Erson Padapiran
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Sebuah fantasi perjalanan yang menarik dan juga memberikan beberapa informasi tentang takhyul yang dipercaya orang-orang eropa pada waktu itu tentang Jawa pada awal abad 19.
No, this is not an account of Balzac's journey to Java. In fact he never set foot on the island. But it doesn't mean that Voyage de Paris à Java is less engaging. Balzac wrote his exotic and romantic reverie intoxicatingly that I admire his knack of turning his own fascinations into something that even more fascinates the readers. Well, I read the book in English but I believe his writing style was the same. Anyway, I think it deserves to be more widely known.
Balzac's poetic admiration to the island of Java, particularly its women, whom he so vividly described. No, he never set foot on the island, but he gathered information from fellow travellers and books. Some details may be incongruous but on emphasis to imagination, this tour de force is terrific.
A very short read that kept my interest due to Balzac's writing style and a vague interest in colonial literature (it reminds me of my university days).
A charming tour de force. Would be loved by any Balzac fan or lover of Java (or for that matter, SE Asia).
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Honoré de Balzac was a nineteenth-century French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of almost 100 novels and plays collectively entitled La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the fall of Napoléon Bonaparte in 1815.
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