Honoré de Balzac
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- Balzac, Honoré de
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- Date of birth
- 1799-05-20
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- Date of death
- 1850-08-18
- Place of death
- Paris
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Honoré de Balzac ( BAL-zak, also US: BAWL-; French: [ɔnɔʁe d(ə) balzak]; born Honoré Balzac; 20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie humaine, described as a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his magnum opus.
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 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 novelists Émile Zola, Charles Dickens, Marcel Proust, Gustave Flaubert, Henry James and Fyodor Dostoevsky, and filmmakers François Truffaut and Jacques Rivette. Many of Balzac's works have been made into films and his work has served as a framework for other writers. James called him "really the father of us all."
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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.
The structure of La Comédie humaine is as follows:
• Études de mœurs, which includes the sub-series:
- Scènes de la vie de campagne
- Scènes de la vie militaire
- Scènes de la vie parisienne, which also includes the sub-series:
+ Histoire des Treize
+ Les parents pauvres
+ Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes
- Scènes de la vie politique
- Scènes de la vie privée
- Scènes de la vie de province, which also includes the sub-series:
+ Illusions perdues
+ Les Célibataires
+ Les Parisiens en province
+ Les Rivalités
• Études philosophiques
• Études analytiquesLast modified: 2020-11-15 (revision #42768)
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- Honoré de Balzac wrote Le Succube
- Honoré de Balzac is the subject of Balzac and Madame Hanska
- Honoré de Balzac wrote Papà Goriot
- Honoré de Balzac is the subject of Die unterirdischen Bücher Balzacs
- Honoré de Balzac wrote Kindermund
- Honoré de Balzac is the subject of Über Balzac
- Honoré de Balzac wrote Отец Горио
- Honoré de Balzac is the subject of Nachwort [Leidenschaft in der Wüste und andere Erzählungen]
- Honoré de Balzac wrote L'Apostrophe
- Honoré de Balzac wrote Naifveté
- Honoré de Balzac wrote The Old Maid
- Honoré de Balzac wrote Papá Goriot
- Honoré de Balzac wrote Der Succubus
- Honoré de Balzac wrote Old Goriot
- Honoré de Balzac wrote Goriot Baba
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