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- La Comédie humaine (French: [la kɔmedi ymɛn]; English: The Human Comedy) is Honoré de Balzac 's 1829–48 multi-volume collection of interlinked novels and stories depicting French society in the period of the Restoration (1815–30) and the July Monarchy (1830–48).
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La Comédie humaine (French: [la kɔmedi ymɛn]; English: The Human Comedy) is Honoré de Balzac 's 1829–48 multi-volume collection of interlinked novels and stories depicting French society in the period of the Restoration (1815–30) and the July Monarchy (1830–48).
The Human Comedy, a vast series of some 90 novels and novellas by Honoré de Balzac, known in the original French as La Comédie humaine. The books that made up the series were published between 1829 and 1847. Balzac’s plan to produce a unified series of books that would comprehend the whole of.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Feb 9, 2017 · Balzac’s Work: an Overview of ‘La Comédie humaine’ Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Balzac: A Portrait of the Novelist as Social Historian and Scientist; 2 Balzac’s Early Works; 3 Balzac’s Correspondence; 4 Fantasy and Reality in La Peau de chagrin; 5 Balzac, Money and the Pursuit of Power; 6 Le Père Goriot: Arrivisme and the Parisian ...
Mar 8, 2010 · In the first place, the work of every great writer, of the creative kind, including that of Dante himself, is a comedie humaine. All humanity is latent in every human being; and the great writers are merely those who call most of it out of latency and put it actually on the stage.
May 20, 2019 · Although he originally called the series Etudes des Mœurs (Study of Mores), it eventually became known as La Comédie Humaine, and he included in it all the fiction that he had published in his lifetime under his own name. This was to be Balzac’s life work and his greatest achievement.
Sep 24, 2024 · In the first place, the work of every great writer, of the creative kind, including that of Dante himself, is a comedie humaine. All humanity is latent in every human being; and the great writers are merely those who call most of it out of latency and put it actually on the stage.
