* Translation of New Epistles by Moonsieur D ' Balzac ( 1638 )

There is also " Brandon Bob " of Brandon, Manitoba, " Staten Island Chuck " in New York, " Balzac Billy " in Alberta, " General Beauregard Lee " in Lilburn, Georgia, " Shubenacadie Sam " in Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia, Two Rivers Tunnel in Cape Breton and " Gary the Groundhog " in Kleinburg, Ontario, among many others.

Publishers Weekly stated that Balzac was a " slim first novel ", and Brooke Allen at the New York Times Book Review called the narrative " streamlined ".

" 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 ).

Now, although the roots of the mystery story in serious literature go back as far as Balzac, Dickens, and Poe, it was not until the closing decades of the 19th century that the private detective became an established figure in popular fiction.

It never registered with them that I had time to read all of Balzac, Dickens, and Stendhal while Papa was dying, not to mention everything in the city library after Mother's operation.

Saïd analysed the works of Balzac, Baudelaire and Lautréamont, exploring how they both absorbed and helped to shape a societal fantasy of European racial superiority.

Honoré de Balzac introduced the perfectly worldly and unmoved Henri de Marsay in La fille aux yeux d ' or ( 1835 ), a part of La Comédie Humaine, who fulfills at first the model of a perfect dandy, until an obsessive love-pursuit unravels him in passionate and murderous jealousy.

Honoré de Balzac, in The Girl with the Golden Eyes ( 1835 ), employed lesbianism in his story about three people living amongst the moral degeneration of Paris, and again in Cousin Bette and Séraphîta.

Havelock Ellis used literary examples from Balzac and several French poets and writers to develop his framework to identify sexual inversion in women.

After meeting Samuel Beckett while delivering a series of lectures in Paris the same year, Adorno set to work on " Trying to Understand Endgame ," which, along with studies of Proust, Valéry and Balzac, formed the central texts of the 1961 publication of the second volume of his Notes to Literature.

** Honoré de Balzac, French author ( b. 1799 )

* May 20 – Honoré de Balzac, a French author ( d. 1850 )

* February 18 – Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac, French writer ( b. 1594 )

Honoré de Balzac ( ; 20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850 ) was a French novelist and playwright.

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.

An enthusiastic reader and independent thinker as a child, Balzac had trouble adapting to the teaching style of his grammar school.

When he finished school, Balzac was an apprentice in a law office, but he turned his back on the study of law after wearying of its inhumanity and banal routine.

Balzac suffered from health problems throughout his life, possibly due to his intense writing schedule.

Honoré Balzac was born into a family which had struggled nobly to achieve respectability.

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.

At age eight Balzac was sent to the Oratorian grammar school in Vendôme, where he studied for seven years.

Balzac had difficulty adapting to the rote style of learning at the school.

( The janitor at the school, when asked later if he remembered Honoré, replied: " Remember M. Balzac?

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 himself attributed his condition to " intellectual congestion ", but his extended confinement in the " alcove " was surely a factor.

In 1814 the Balzac family moved to Paris, and Honoré was sent to private tutors and schools for the next two and a half years.

Our meeting took place in May, 1961, during one of the Maestro's stop-overs in New York, before he left for Europe.

After he had spent the first three years in New York as associate conductor, at Toscanini's invitation, of the NBC Orchestra, he made numerous guest appearances throughout the United States and Latin America.

Principal author of `` The Federalist '', he swung New York over from opposition to the Constitution to ratification almost single-handedly.

He ended his public career as a two-term governor of New York.

Talleyrand passed his New York law office one night on the way to a party.

No Southern novelist has done for Atlanta or Birmingham what Herrick, Dreiser, and Farrell did for Chicago or Dos Passos did for New York.

But hear Harrison E. Salisbury, former Moscow correspondent of The New York Times, and author of `` To Moscow -- And Beyond ''.

Exhibited in shows in London in 1935, and in New York the following year, the new, more elaborated abstracts were much favored in the circles of the modernists as three-dimentional dramas of great intellectual coherence.

In New York he was well received by what was then only a small brave band of non-figurative artists, including Alexander Calder, George K. L. Morris, De Kooning, Holty and a few others.

At the time of his capture Helion had on his person a sketchbook he had bought at Woolworth's in New York.

While convalescing in his Virginia home he wrote a book recording his prison experiences and escape, entitled: They Shall Not Have Me Published originally in ( Helion's ) English by Dutton & Co. of New York, in 1943, the book was received by the press as a work of astonishing literary power and one of the most realistic accounts of World War 2, from the French side.

Between 1944 and 1947 Helion had a series of one-man shows -- at the Paul Rosenberg Gallery in New York and in Paris -- of his new realistic pictures.

The New York Herald Tribune's photographer, Ira Rosenberg, tells an anecdote about the time he wanted to take a picture of Carl playing a guitar.

In answer to a New York Times query on what is fame ( `` Thoughts On Fame '', October 23, 1960 ), Carl said: `` Fame is a figment of a pigment.

`` Well, as a matter of fact, I've looked through back-issue files of New York papers for December, 1957, and haven't found a great deal '' --

`` It wasn't necessarily all here in New York.

When the troupe traveled to New York to participate in a one-act-play competition -- and won -- Mercer, instead of returning with the rest of the company in triumph, remained in New York.

the Honorable Robert Wagner, Sr., at that time a justice of the New York Supreme Court, was on the reception committee.

City editor Victor Watson of the New York American was a man of brooding suspicions and mysterious shifts of mood.

The blue-eyed Watson decided that he would dislike living in New York, and the deal fell through.

Hearst took a brief respite to hurry home to New York to become a father.

Attorney Shearn had worked on this for two years and had succeeded in getting a report supporting his stand from the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York.