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He drank it, Ms. Muhlstein says, "by the potful, by the bucketful, despite the terrible cramps wringing his insides, the nervous eye twitches, and the burning in his stomach."
Like Dining With Rabelais Moira Hodgson 2011
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"A Balzac character is defined as much by the café he chooses, and his regular eatery or restaurant, as by his voice, his behavior, and his clothes," writes Ms. Muhlstein the book's deft translation is by Adriana Hunter.
Like Dining With Rabelais Moira Hodgson 2011
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As Ms. Muhlstein notes: "An appetizing young peasant girl is a ham, a pale wrinkled old woman looks like calves' sweetbreads."
Like Dining With Rabelais Moira Hodgson 2011
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Ms. Muhlstein also shows how Balzac influenced the next generation of French writers, including Flaubert, Maupassant and Zola, who paid close attention to cooking and meals in their work.
Like Dining With Rabelais Moira Hodgson 2011
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Anka Muhlstein, a French writer whose previous work includes biographies of Queen Victoria, James de Rothschild and Astolphe de Custine, has written an absorbing and insightful portrait of Balzac who died in 1850 at age 51 and of the role that food played in 19th-century France.
Like Dining With Rabelais Moira Hodgson 2011
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The poetical vision is purely Proustian, but as Ms. Muhlstein says, it was Balzac who set the table for him.
Like Dining With Rabelais Moira Hodgson 2011
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It is Balzac, Muhlstein tells us, who first "brought meals into literature, in all their diversity."
NYT > Home Page By NANCY KLINE 2011
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He throws "the doors wide open" to the novelists who succeed him, Muhlstein explains, inviting Flaubert to indulge in Emma Bovary's 16-hour wedding feast, Zola to wander the belly of Paris, and Proust - well, to be Proust.
NYT > Home Page By NANCY KLINE 2011
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Once a novel was done, however, he ingested superhuman quantities of food and wine, a fact reflected in the French title of Muhlstein's book: Garçon, un Cent d'Huîtres!
NYT > Home Page By NANCY KLINE 2011
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Too often, though, Muhlstein's juicy passages of culinary and social history give way to pure plot summaries, interlarded with page-long quotes from Balzac, largely unexamined.
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