In these works, Hazan writes, the street is more than just a setting: The places where the characters live and evolve are part of their personality; they define them in the same way as their physique, their dress or their psychology.
Hazan narrates in the manner of a tour guide, hopping from location to location and offering up nuggets of commentary: pertinent quotes from the novels, or Balzac's personal correspondence; etymological titbits; an apposite line from Baudelaire or Proust.
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