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Honoré de Balzac (/ ˈ b æ l z æ k / BAL-zak, more commonly US: / ˈ b ɔː l-/ BAWL-, French: [ɔnɔʁe d(ə) balzak]; born Honoré Balzac; 20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright.
Jun 29, 2024 · Honoré de Balzac was a French literary artist who produced a vast number of novels and short stories collectively called La Comédie humaine (The Human Comedy). He helped to establish the traditional form of the novel and is generally considered to be one of the greatest novelists of all time.
Jan 18, 2019 · Honoré de Balzac (born Honoré Balssa, May 20, 1799 – August 18, 1850) was a novelist and playwright in nineteenth-century France. His work formed part of the foundation of the realist tradition in European literature, with particular focus on his remarkably complex characters.
Honoré de Balzac, nom de plume d'Honoré Balzac [n 1], né le 20 mai 1799 (1 er prairial an VII du calendrier républicain) à Tours et mort le 18 août 1850 à Paris, est un écrivain français.
Honoré de Balzac, orig. Honoré Balssa, (born May 20, 1799, Tours, France—died Aug. 18, 1850, Paris), French writer. Balzac began working as a clerk in Paris at about age 16. An early attempt at a business career left him with huge debts, and for decades he toiled incessantly to improve his worsening financial condition.
1 day ago · The Lily in the Valley. By Honoré de Balzac, translated by Peter Bush. NYRB Classics. 280 pages. We may earn a commission when you buy products through the links on our site. Buy Book. Much of ...
Honoré de Balzac (May 20, 1799 – August 18, 1850) was a French novelist recognized as one of the founders of realism in European fiction. An immensely productive, if uneven writer, Balzac intended his massive (and ultimately incomplete) body of novels and stories, collectively entitled The Human Comedy(La Comédie humaine), to present a ...
1 day ago · In the mid-1840s, in a melancholy mood about the series of modernisations he was witnessing in Paris, Honoré de Balzac wrote in his unfinished novel Les Petits Bourgeois: “Alas! the old Paris ...
Mar 13, 2023 · Cet ensemble de plus de 2000 personnages gangrénés par le fantasme de l’agent, de la presse et de la passion dévorante, forme une fresque de la société française, depuis la Révolution (1789), à la fin de la monarchie de Juillet (1830-1848).
Jun 29, 2024 · His command of the French language was probably unrivaled, and he was also an outstanding master of dialogue. His sardonic humour saves his more pessimistic stories from being uniformly dark, and he had a real gift for comedy. Balzac is regarded as the creator of realism in the novel.
