Many of Balzac's works have been made into or have inspired films, and they are a continuing source of inspiration for writers, filmmakers and critics.

Among his last completed works were the illustrations for Balzac's Droll Stories ( 1961 ) and for his own poem The Rhyme Of The Flying Bomb ( 1962 ), which he had written some 15 years earlier.

Exercises and examples for students were based on rendering literature such as Honoré de Balzac's Le Père Goriot.

Honoré ( so named after Saint Honoré of Amiens, who is commemorated on 16 May, four days before Balzac's birthday ) was actually the second child born to the Balzacs ; exactly one year previous, Louis-Daniel had been born, but he lived for only a month.

Although his mind was receiving nourishment, the same could not be said for Balzac's body.

Balzac's first project was a libretto for a comic opera called Le Corsaire, based on Lord Byron's The Corsair.

Still, Garbo signed a contract in 1948 for $ 200, 000 with producer Walter Wanger, who had produced Queen Christina, to shoot a picture based on Balzac's La Duchesse de Langeais.

Saumur is also the scene for Balzac's novel Eugénie Grandet, written by the French author in 1833, and the title of a song from hard rock band Trust ( whose lyrics express their poor opinion of the city: narrow-minded, bourgeois and militaristic ).

A favorite of Balzac's, the book quickly won widespread popularity and has often been adapted for film and the stage.

He introduces this notion in the epigraph to the essay, taken from Honoré de Balzac's story Sarrasine in which a male protagonist mistakes a castrato for a woman and falls in love with him.

For example, Célestin Crevel first appeared in Balzac's 1837 novel César Birotteau, working for the title character.

Anthony Pugh, in his book Balzac's Recurring Characters, says that the technique is employed " for the most part without that feeling of self-indulgence that mars some of Balzac's later work.

'") Her cruelty and lust for revenge lead critics to call her " demonic " and " one of Balzac's most terrifying creations ".

Others indicate that Balzac's interest in the theatre was an important reason for the inclusion of melodramatic elements.

Some have compared her to Balzac's title character in Le Père Goriot, who sacrifices himself for his daughters.

Like Raphael de Valentin in Balzac's 1831 novel La Peau de chagrin, Hulot is left with nothing but " vouloir ": desire, a force which is both essential for human existence and eventually apocalyptic.

Balzac's novel has been adapted several times for the screen.

Other opera librettos include La rose de Terone ( 1840 ), Si j ' étais roi ( 1852 ), Le muletier de Tolède ( 1854 ) ( on which Michael Balfe's The Rose of Castille ( 1857 ) was based ), and À Clichy ( 1854 ) by Adolphe Adam, Massenet's early Don César de Bazan ( 1872 ) and Hervé's La nuit aux soufflets ( 1884 ) He prepared for the stage Balzac's posthumous comedy Mercadet ou le faiseur, presented at the Théâtre du Gymnase Marie Bell in 1851.

* The Cat " a story for music ", 1979, in Restoration, London, Methuen, 1982, from Honoré de Balzac's Peines d ' amour d ' une chatte anglaise, music by H. W.

Beevers has worked extensively at the Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond upon Thames, both as an actor ( including the title role in Jules Romain's Doctor Knock, 1994 ); and as an adaptor / director of George Eliot's novel Adam Bede ( February 1990 ), for which he won a Time Out Award, and Balzac's Père Goriot ( February 1994 ).

Balzac's works were slow to be translated into English because they were perceived as unsuitable for female readers.

Many of Balzac's shorter works have elements taken from the popular " roman noir " or gothic novel, but often the fantastic elements are used for very different purposes in Balzac's work.

Many of Balzac's tormented characters were created in the small second-floor bedroom.

Balzac's extensive use of detail, especially the detail of objects, to illustrate the lives of his characters made him an early pioneer of literary realism.

" " Balzac's characters ", Robb notes, " were as real to him as if he were observing them in the outside world.

Balzac's use of repeating characters, moving in and out of the Comédies books, strengthens the realist representation.

A nearly infinite reserve of energy propels the characters in Balzac's novels.

Representations of the city, countryside, and building interiors are essential to Balzac's realism, often serving to paint a naturalistic backdrop before which the characters ' lives follow a particular course ; this gave him a reputation as an early naturalist.

It marks the first serious use by the author of characters who had appeared in other books, a technique that distinguishes Balzac's fiction.

In French literature, Honoré de Balzac's ambitious La Comédie humaine, a set of nearly 100 novels, novellas and short stories with some recurring characters, started to come together during the 1830s.

Balzac's use of recurring characters has been identified as a unique component of his fiction.

Several of Balzac's characters, particularly Louis Lambert, traverse mystical crises and / or develop syncretic spiritual philosophies about human energy and action that are largely modelled on the life and work of Emanuel Swedenborg ( 1688 – 1772 ).

Some critics consider Balzac's writing exemplary of naturalism – a more pessimistic and analytical form of realism, which seeks to explain human behavior as intrinsically linked with the environment.

Balzac's vision of a society in which class, money and personal ambition are the major players has been endorsed by critics of both left-wing and right-wing political tendencies.

She amuses herself by mocking her lovers ' devotion, and this wickedness – not to mention her gruesome demise – has led some critics to speculate that she is actually the focus of Balzac's morality tale.

Some critics note that La Cousine Bette showed an evolution in Balzac's style – one which he had little time to develop.

He was an active journalist, showing in philosophy and literature the influence of Victor Cousin, and is said to have furnished to no small extent the original of Honoré de Balzac's character, Henri de Marsay.

French philosopher and novelist Honoré de Balzac's fictional work " Louis Lambert " suggests he may have had some astral or out-of-body experience.

Poe may have also seen similar themes in Honoré de Balzac's " Le Grande Bretêche " ( Democratic Review, November 1843 ) or his friend George Lippard's The Quaker City ; or The Monks of Monk Hall ( 1845 ).

If Balzac's goal was ( as he claimed ) to write a realist novel from his " own old pen " rather than mimic the style of Eugène Sue, history and literary criticism have declared him successful.

Steven Ungar compares Nausea with French novels of different periods, such as Madame de La Fayette's La Princesse de Clèves ( 1678 ), Honoré de Balzac's Le Père Goriot ( 1835 ), André Malraux's La Condition humaine ( 1933 ), and Annie Ernaux's Une femme ( 1988 ), all of which have scenes with men and women faced with choices and " provide literary expressions to concerns with personal identity that vary over time more in detail than in essence.

As depicted in his works, Balzac's spiritual philosophy suggests that individuals have a limited quantity of spiritual energy and that this energy is dissipated through creative or intellectual work or through physical activity ( including sex ), and this is made emblematic in his philosophical tale La Peau de chagrin, in which a magical wild ass's skin confers on its owner unlimited powers, but shrinks each time it is used in science.