Balzac, Honoré de
Balzac, Honoré de (1799–1850) French novelist. One of the greatest novelists of the 19th century, Balzac's first success was
Les Chouans (1829). More than 90 novels and short stories followed during a lifetime of extraordinary creative effort. He organized these works into a grand fictional scheme, intended as a detailed, realistic study of the whole of contemporary French society, which he called
La Comédie Humaine (
The Human Comedy). Among his best-known novels are
Eugénie Grandet (1833),
Le Pére Goriot (1834–35), and
La Cousine Bette (1846).
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Honore de Balzac, Explorer la Comedie humaine.(Review) (book review)
Magazine article from: Nineteenth-Century French Studies; 9/22/2000; ; 700+ words
; Honore de Balzac, Explorer la Comedie humaine. Groupe International de Recherches Balzaciennes...would be irresistible. This was the logic, anyway, that prompted Honore Balzac (he had not yet acquired the particule) to publish the works of Moliere...
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Balzac, Honore de/Horace de Saint-Aubin, pseudonym of Honore de Balzac. The Centenarian, or, The Two Beringhelds.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Nineteenth-Century French Studies; 9/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; Balzac, Honore de/Horace de Saint-Aubin, pseudonym of Honore de Balzac. The Centenarian, or, The Two Beringhelds. Trans. Daniele Chatelain...
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Honore de Balzac: Memoire de la critique.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 1/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; Honore de Balzac: Memoire de la critique. Ed. by STEPHANE...199 F. Given the recent bicentenary of Balzac's birth and the 150th anniversary of...somewhat arbitrarily selected critiques of Balzac (Ambriere, Barberis, Lukacs, Mozet...
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Honore de Balzac. Ecrits sur le roman. Anthologie.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 4/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; Honore de Balzac. Ecrits sur le roman. Anthologie. Textes choisis, presentes et...with more than usual caution. As a kind of companion volume to his Honore de Balzac. Memoire de la critique (Paris: Presses de l'Universite de Paris...
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Melville and Balzac: the man in cream-colors.(Essays)(novelists Herman Melville and Honore de Balzac)(Essay)
Magazine article from: College Literature; 1/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...never mentions French novelist Honore de Balzac in the documentation we possess...unanswered questions. Melville and Balzac The track of relying on internal...contact with the works and ideas of Honore de Balzac before 1857 probable and indeed...
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Vachon, Stephane, ed. Honore de Balzac. Memoire de la critique. (book review)
Magazine article from: Nineteenth-Century French Studies; 3/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...d'editer le volume consacre a Balzac. Il s'agissait de selectionner...etonner les lecteurs occasionnels de Balzac: "Peu compris, mal lu, guere aime, rarement pris au serieux, Honore de Balzac fut, de son vivant, plus que tout...
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Honore de Balzac, Le Pere Goriot.(Critical Guides to French Texts)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 1/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; Approaches to Teaching Balzac's 'Old Goriot'. Ed. by MICHAL...3 (pbk 0-87352-760-7). HONORE DE BALZAC, Le Pere Goriot. By RICHARD BOLSTER...student. Those working in the field of Balzac studies will probably not wish to...
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Honore de Balzac (1799-1850) ...
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 8/11/2002; 402 words
; Honore de Balzac (1799-1850) would eat 100 oysters or...was colossal. Rodin's "Monument to Balzac" (1897) in the Hirshhorn Museum's...Garden combines the force of those two men. Balzac, short and fat in life, is nine feet...
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Balzacian Evolution and the Origin of the Snopeses.(Honore de Balzac)
Magazine article from: The Southern Literary Journal; 9/22/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...Comedy"(1) probably created the Honore de Balzac-William Faulkner source study...can be read about in the novels of Balzac, Dickens, Twain, to name but...mentions "Baron de Nucingen, Balzac's great financier," and that...
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Balzac, Honore de: Correspondance, Tome I (1809-1835).(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Biography; 6/22/2007; ; 518 words
; Balzac, Honore de Correspondance, Tome I (1809-1835). Honore de Balzac. Ed. Roger Pierrot and Herve Yon. Paris: Gallimard, "Bibliotheque...
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Vasari, Giorgio (1511–1570)
Book article from: The Renaissance
...speculation and fiction with facts as he knew them. His book provided inspiration for many authors and poets, including Honore de Balzac, George Eliot, and Robert Browning, who treated the themes of struggling artists and their works, but more importantly...
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Romm, Mikhail
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...passion, for example, prompting him to translate the works of such major French authors as Gustave Flaubert and Honore de Balzac into Russian. He also wrote novels and short stories, and worked as a sculptor, interpreter, actor, and journalist...
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