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* Balzac, 1946 – written, as Richard Friedenthal describes in a postscript, by Zweig in the Brazilian summer capital of Petrópolis, without access to the files, notebooks, lists, tables, editions and monographs that Zweig accumulated for many years and that he took with him to Bath, but that he left behind when he went to America.
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Balzac and 1946
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" Friedenthal claimed that " The book had been finished ", though not every chapter was complete ; he used a working copy of the manuscript Zweig left behind him to apply " the finishing touches ", and Friedenthal rewrote the final chapters ( Balzac, translated by William and Dorothy Rose York: Viking, 1946, pp. 399, 402 ).
Balzac and –
* Honoré de Balzac ( 1799 – 1850 ), novelist
* May 20 – Honoré de Balzac, a French author ( d. 1850 )
* February 18 – Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac, French writer ( b. 1594 )
The French novelist Balzac wrote about a courtesan in his Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes ( 1838 – 47 ).
* Séraphitus Séraphita – Poema Sinfonico after Honoré de Balzac, Teatro alla Scala, Milan 1894
Honoré de Balzac ( ; 20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850 ) was a French novelist and playwright.
Balzac worked these scenes from his boyhood – as he did many aspects of his life and the lives of those around him – into La Comédie Humaine.
Balzac had better luck publishing the memoirs of Laure Junot, Duchess of Abrantès – with whom he also had an affair.
Although Balzac was a supporter of the crown, Balzac paints the counter-revolutionaries in a sympathetic light – even though they are the center of the book's most brutal scenes.
Soon afterwards, around the time of his father's death, Balzac wrote El Verdugo – about a 30-year-old man who kills his father ( Balzac was 30 years old at the time ).
When the July Revolution overthrew Charles X in 1830, Balzac declared himself a Legitimist, supporting Charles ' House of Bourbon – but with qualifications.
In February 1832 Balzac received a letter from Odessa – lacking a return address and signed only by " L ' Étrangère " (" The Foreigner ") – expressing sadness at the cynicism and atheism in La Peau de Chagrin and its negative portrayal of women.
The Comédie Humaine remained unfinished at the time of his death – Balzac had plans to include numerous other books, most of which he never started.
Zola indicated that, whereas Romantics saw the world through a colored lens, the naturalist sees through a clear glass – precisely the sort of effect Balzac attempted to achieve in his works.
" In his own novels James explored more of the psychological motives of the characters and less of the historical sweep exhibited by Balzac – a conscious style preference.
The fourth brother, Étienne Vincent de ( 1802 – 1892 ), is said to have collaborated with Honoré de Balzac in The Heiress of Birague, and from 1822 to 1847 wrote a great number of light dramatic pieces, mostly in collaboration.
* Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac ( 1594 – 1654 ), author
In The Realists, an examination of the work of eight novelists – Stendhal, Honoré de Balzac, Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Benito Pérez Galdós, Henry James and Marcel Proust – Snow makes a robust defence of the realistic novel.
Zweig is best known for his novellas ( notably The Royal Game, Amok, Letter from an Unknown Woman – filmed in 1948 by Max Ophüls ), novels ( Beware of Pity, Confusion of Feelings, and the posthumously published The Post Office Girl ) and biographies ( notably Erasmus of Rotterdam, Conqueror of the Seas: The Story of Magellan, and Mary, Queen of Scotland and the Isles and also posthumously published, Balzac ).
Balzac – Dickens – Dostojewski )
Balzac and written
Balzac quickly turned to longer works, and by 1826 he had written nine novels, all published under pseudonyms and often produced in collaboration with other writers.
Although he married late in life, Balzac had already written two treatises on marriage: Physiologie du Mariage and Scènes de la Vie Conjugale.
As part of the 19th-century evolution of the novel as a " democratic literary form ", Balzac wrote that " les livres sont faits pour tout le monde ," (" books are written for everybody ").
When Balzac began writing Le Père Goriot in 1834, he had written several dozen books, including a stream of pseudonymously published potboiler novels.
In " Le Lys dans la vallée ", written in 1835 and published in 1836, Honoré de Balzac recommends certain standards of behaviour to a young man, concluding: " Everything I have just told you can be summarized by an old word: noblesse oblige!
Balzac had written more than seventy novels when he began La Cousine Bette, and populated them with recurring characters.
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress is a semi-autobiographical novel written by Dai Sijie, and published in 2000 in French and in English in 2001.
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress is written in a characteristic style.
The scenes described in the book are reminiscent of masterpieces written by Leo Tolstoy and Honoré de Balzac.
Sarrasine is a novella written by Honoré de Balzac.
The first works of Balzac were written without any global plan (" Les Chouans " is a historical novel ; " Physiologie du mariage " is an analytical study of marriage ), but by 1830 Balzac began to group his first novels ( Sarrasine, Gobseck ) into a series entitled " Scènes de la vie privée " (" Scenes from Private Life ").
In a letter written to Madame Hanska in 1834, Balzac decided to reorganize his works into three larger groups, allowing him ( 1 ) to integrate his " La physiologie du mariage " into the ensemble and ( 2 ) to separate his most fantastic or metaphysical stories — like La Peau de chagrin ( 1831 ) and Louis Lambert ( 1832 ) — into their own " philosophical " section.
* The Deputy for Arcis ( the only part written by Balzac was published as l ' Élection, 1847 )
Balzac and Richard
Critic Richard Lehan says that " Balzac was the bridge between the comic realism of Dickens and the naturalism of Zola.
Balzac and Friedenthal
Friedenthal wrote that Balzac " was to be his magnum opus, and he had been working at it for ten years.
Balzac and describes
" The legendary attractiveness of the figure is referenced in Sarrasine by Honoré de Balzac, which describes an unrequited love of the main character, Sarrasine for the image in a painting of an Adonis and a castrato.
In the novel Le Colonel Chabert of French author Honoré de Balzac, Eylau is the battle where the Colonel describes having been mistakenly reported as killed.
Honoré de Balzac describes monomania in Eugenie Grandet:
Balzac and by
* Droll Stories ( by Balzac ) ( Folio Society, 1961 )
In 1760 the elder Balzac set off for Paris with only a louis coin in his pocket, determined to improve his social standing ; by 1776 he had become Secretary to the King's Council and a Freemason.
As an infant Balzac was sent to a wet-nurse ; the following year he was joined by his sister Laure and they spent four years away from home.
) When the Balzac children returned home, they were kept at a frigid distance by their parents, which affected the author-to-be significantly.
Once his studies were completed, Balzac was persuaded by his father to follow him into the law ; for three years he trained and worked at the office of Victor Passez, a family friend.
Near the end of his life Balzac was captivated by the idea of cutting of oak wood in Ukraine and transporting it for sale in France.
Although Balzac was " by turns a hermit and a vagrant ", he managed to stay connected to the social world which nourished his writing.
Later, Balzac became the subject of a monumental statue by the French sculptor Auguste Rodin, which stands near the intersection of Boulevard Raspail and Boulevard Montparnasse.
Bust of Balzac by Auguste Rodin ( 1892 ), displayed at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London
Gustave Flaubert was also substantially influenced by Balzac.
Perhaps the author most affected by Balzac was American expatriate novelist Henry James.
* Works by or about Honore de Balzac at Internet Archive ( scanned books original editions color illustrated )
Like Balzac, Zola ’ s imagination was roused by Paris and all that the capital represented to him.
* Adieu is a novella by Honoré de Balzac in which can be found a short description of the French retreat from Russia, particularly the battle of Berezina, where the fictional couple of the story are tragically separated.
* Le Colonel Chabert by Honoré de Balzac.
' Notre Dame de Paris ' was the first work of fiction to encompass the whole of life, from the King of France to Paris sewer rats, in a manner later co-opted by Honoré de Balzac, Gustave Flaubert and many others, including Charles Dickens.
He was widely esteemed by writers as diverse as Balzac, Baudelaire, the Goncourt brothers, Flaubert, Proust and Oscar Wilde.
* La Comédie humaine, a sequence of almost 100 novels and plays by Honoré de Balzac, set during the Restoration and the July Monarchy
* The 1839 novel by Honoré de Balzac, Pierre Grassou, concerns an artist who lives off forgeries.
At 24 years of age, Mao Dun was already renowned as a novelist by the community in general, and in 1920, he and a group of young writers took over the magazine Xiaoshuo Yuebao ( 小说月报 ), which translated means " fiction monthly ", to publish literature by western authors, such as Tolstoy, Chekhov, Balzac, Flaubert, Zola, Byron, Keats, Shaw, etc., and make new theories of literature better known.
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