Treatise on Elegant Living - Honore de Balzac painting The Clangers (1969–74)

The Clangers (1969–74)

this 1969 guide to the ancient Japanese game of Go was not only the first such guide to be published in France (and thereby introduced the centuries-old game of strategy into that country) but something of a subtle Oulipian guidebook to writing strategies and tactics

A rediscovered literary classic

set in a world of grotesque entities and psychedelic minarets: half unshakable nightmare

illustrated in color & bw

Treatise on Elegant Living - Honore de Balzac painting The Clangers (1969–74)Treatise on Elegant Living by Honor de Balzac ISBN 9780984115501 small paperback with flaps from Wakefield Press *** Honor de Balzacs 1830 Treatise on Elegant Living was a keystone text on dandyism, preceding Jules Barbey dAurevillys Anatomy of Dandyism (1845) and Charles Baudelaires The Dandy (in The Painter of Modern Life, 1863), and marking an important shift from the early dandyism of the British Regency to the intellectual and artistic dandyism