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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.
May 17, 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.
French writer Honoré de Balzac (born Honoré Balzac), a founder of the realist school of fiction, portrayed the panorama of society in a body of works, known collectively as La comédie humaine. Honoré de Balzac authored 19th-century novels and plays.
Discuss the monomania evidenced by some of Honoré de Balzac’s most important characters: the miserliness of Old Grandet, the paternal love of Père Goriot, the hatred of Bette, and the ...
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.
Honoré de Balzac was a 19th century novelist and playwright very well known for his detailed observations and keen sense of uncensored reality. In fact, Balzac is considered one of the founding fathers of European realism.
May 17, 2024 · Honoré de Balzac - French Novelist, Realism, La Comédie Humaine: The year 1834 marks a climax in Balzac’s career, for by then he had become totally conscious of his great plan to group his individual novels so that they would comprehend the whole of contemporary society in a diverse but unified series of books.
Sep 28, 2012 · Summary. Balzac's central position in the tradition of the European novel is incontrovertible. The author of the ninety-odd, linked novels and stories comprising La Comédie humaine, which sought principally, though not quite exclusively, to offer a panoramic depiction of public and private life in France since the Revolution of 1789, is the ...
