Honoré de Balzac
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2 days ago · Honoré de Balzac (/ ˈ b æ l z æ k / BAL-zak, [2] more commonly US: / ˈ b ɔː l-/ BAWL-, [3] [4] [5] French: [ɔnɔʁe d(ə) balzak]; born Honoré Balzac; [1] 20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is ...
Jul 19, 2024 · Balzac’s story of baffled desire in the world of France’s 19th-century aristocracy captures a society in the midst of enormous change.
6 days ago · Spanning 35 letters, these carefully curated documents offer an intimate look into Balzac’s most passionate and unwavering romance. Honoré de Balzac, often hailed as the 'Father of Modern French Fiction,' pours his soul into these missives, revealing a deeply personal side often overshadowed by his prolific literary output.
Jul 20, 2024 · With the French capital poised for the Olympics, two new books seek to expose the social challenges that have long existed at the margins of the city. Charles Marville’s ‘Construction of the ...
5 days ago · Flânerie is the act of strolling, with all of its accompanying associations. A near-synonym of the noun is boulevardier. The flâneur was first a literary type from 19th-century France, essential to any picture of the streets of Paris. The word carried a set of rich associations: the man of leisure, the idler, the urban explorer, the ...
4 days ago · Eugénie Grandet is the conquest of absolute truth in art. It is the drama applied to the most simple events of life; the fusion of the trivial and the sublime, the pathetic and the grotesque....
4 days ago · Charles Pierre Baudelaire ( UK: / ˈboʊdəlɛər /, US: / ˌboʊd ( ə) ˈlɛər /; [1] French: [ʃaʁl (ə) bodlɛʁ] ⓘ; 9 April 1821 – 31 August 1867) was a French poet who also worked as an essayist, art critic and translator.
