Around 1835 a young man knocked at Gautier’s door in the Impasse du Doyenné bearing an invitation from Balzac, and a long friendship began. Gautier recalls the novelist’s appearance, his punishing working nights, his schemes and fantasies, and the way his characters, from Ferragus to Montriveau, followed him out of his study into life.
A vivid first-hand portrait of the author of La Comédie humaine by one of the finest French writers of his day. Download the free EPUB.