“Tell me where you eat, what you eat, and at what time you eat, and I will tell you who you are. ”This is the motto of Anka Muhlstein’s erudite and witty book about the ways food and the art of the table feature in Honoré de Balzac’s The Human Comedy . Balzac uses them as a connecting thread in his novels, showing how food can evoke character, atmosphere, class, and social climbing more suggestively than money, appearances, and other more conventional trappings.

Full of surprises and insights, Balzac’s Omelet invites you to taste anew Balzac’s genius as a writer and his deep understanding of the human condition, its ambitions, its flaws, and its cravings.

安卡．穆斯坦Anka Muhlstein

一九三五年生於巴黎。曾經出版維多利亞女王、詹姆斯．德．羅斯卻爾德﹝James de Rothschild﹞、卡維里爾．德．拉．賽爾﹝Cavalier de La Salle﹞及亞斯托菲．德．古斯廷﹝Astolphe de Custine﹞等人的傳記；專研Catherine de Medicis、Marie de Medicis及奧地利的Anne；著有雙傳記《伊莉莎白一世及瑪麗．司圖亞特》﹝Elizabeth I and Mary Stuart﹞及《普魯斯特的個人書房》﹝Monsieur Proust’s Library﹞。分別因傳記獲得法蘭西學院獎及龔固爾獎。

譯者介紹

梁永安

台灣大學文化人類學學士、哲學碩士,東海大學哲學博士班肄業。目前為專業翻譯者,共完成約近百本譯著,包括《文化與抵抗》（Culture and Resistance / Edward W. Said）、《啟蒙運動》（The Enlightenment / Peter Gay）、《現代主義》（Modernism：The Lure of Heresy / Peter Gay）等。