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Honoré de Balzac
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Introduction and brief biography of Honore de Balzac
George Saintsbury was an English critic, literary historian, editor, and teacher. He is regarded as a highly influential critic of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His biography and critique of Balzac written in 1901 is thus considered an influential and important account.
Honore de Balzac, His Life and Writings
In "Honore de Balzac, His Life and Writings," Mary Frances Sandars deftly navigates the intricate tapestry of Balzac's literary career and personal life, meticulously chronicling the profound impact of his experiences on his voluminous body of work. Sandars employs a biographical approach, weaving anecdotal evidence with critical analysis, and provides a rich context that situates Balzac within the broader Parisian milieu of the 19th century. The book reveals Balzac's relentless pursuit of realism, underscoring his ambition to portray society with an unflinching eye, ultimately encapsulating the complexities of human nature and the relentless march of time, a hallmark of the literary movemen...
Honore de Balzac
Honoré de Balzac was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his magnum opus
Honore De Balzac, Best Novels
Honor� de Balzac (20 May 1799 - 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of short stories and novels collectively entitled La Com�die humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the 1815 fall of Napoleon Bonaparte.Due to his keen observation of detail and unfiltered representation of society, Balzac is regarded as one of the founders of realism in European literature. He is renowned for his multifaceted characters, who are morally ambiguous. His writing influenced many subsequent novelists such as Marcel Proust, �mile Zola, Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, E�a de Queir�s, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Gustave Flaubert, Ben...
Honore de Balzac, His Life and Writings (Esprios Classics)
"Books about Balzac would fill a fair-sized library. Criticisms on his novels abound, and his contemporaries have provided us with several amusing volumes dealing in a humorous spirit with his eccentricities, and conveying the impression that the author of "La Cousine Bette" and "Le Pere Goriot" was nothing more than an amiable buffoon. Nevertheless, by some strange anomaly, there exists no Life of him derived from original sources, incorporating the information available since the appearance of the volume called "Lettres a l'Etrangere. " This book, which is the source of much of our present knowledge of Balzac, is a collection of letters written by him from 1833 to 1844 to Madame Hanska, the Polish lady who afterwards became his wife."
Eugénie Grandet
Honoré de Balzac; born Honoré Balzac; was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his magnum opus. Owing to his keen observation of detail and unfiltered representation of society, Balzac is regarded as one of the founders of realism in European literature. He is renowned for his multi-faceted characters; even his lesser characters are complex, morally ambiguous and fully human. Inanimate objects are imbued with character as well; the city of Paris, a backdrop for much of his writing, takes on many human qualities. His writing influenced many famous writers, including the nove...
Honore De Balzac
Excerpt from Honore De Balzac: His Life and Writings Books about Balzac would fill a fair-sized library. Criticisms on his novels abound, and his con temporaries have provided us with several amusing volumes dealing in a humorous spirit with his eccentricities, and conveying the impression that the author of La Cousine Bette and Le Pere Goriot was nothing more than an amiable buf'foon. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
