The work of Balzac on SPT
"Kaleidoscope” will present "Balzac — torrents of the Mind” on S.P.T. on Friday night. “Our passions. our vices, our inborn extremism, our pleasures and our pain, are torrents of the mind flowing through us. When a man gives himself totally to fixed ideas he is destroyed bv them.” ' V.S. Pritchett sees in these words the essence of Honore de Balzac’s "Human Comedy” and in
this film he explores the characters and themes which form one of the greatest literary achievements of all time. His path takes him by way of dramatised excerpts from some of the novels, through a world of materialism and obsession that Pritchett finds very much like our own. The president of International Pen, V.S. Pritchett is now 75 and was recently knighted for his services to literature.
Short story writer, critic and novelist himself, he has had a life-long admiration for Balzac, and has
just published a book about him. Balzac is played by John Sharp. _____
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Press, 31 May 1977, Page 19
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