Balzac in a sentence

Legacy Bust of Balzac by Auguste Rodin (1892), displayed at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London Balzac influenced writers of his time and beyond.

Lehan, 48 Marcel Proust similarly learned from the Realist example; he adored Balzac and studied his works carefully, although he criticised what he perceived as Balzac's "vulgarity".

Literary critic W. H. Helm calls one "the French Dickens" and the other "the English Balzac", Helm, 124 while another critic, Richard Lehan, states that "Balzac was the bridge between the comic realism of Dickens and the naturalism of Zola ".

Saintsbury, "Honoré de Balzac", xv Saintsbury indicates that Robert Louis Stevenson tried to dissuade him from reading these early works of Balzac.

Saintsbury, "Honoré de Balzac", xxvi Initial proofs of Béatrix Balzac revised obsessively, covering printer's proofs with changes and additions to be reset.

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).

The Works of Honoré de Balzac (1901), including Le Père Goriot A nearly infinite reserve of energy propels the characters in Balzac's novels.

Towns like Cochrane and Balzac can be counted on to pass civic ordnances that there will be no damned (and I use that term advisedly) toplessness allowed in pools by people whose nipples have an actual purpose beyond mere masculine decoration!

Besson gives a lot of thought in his book to what it's like to be as clever and capable as Macron, and whether he more closely resembles Balzac's Eugène de Rastignac or Flaubert's Frédéric Moreau.

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").

Balzac meant the story to bear witness to the treacherous turns of life, its "serpentine motion".

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.

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

Balzac transferred this to his descriptions of the Pension Vauquer in Le Père Goriot, making the wallpaper speak of the identities of those living inside.

Brooks, 125 Characters Balzac sought to present his characters as real people, neither fully good nor fully evil, but completely human.

Brooks, 131 Lehan, 204 Perspective Balzac's literary mood evolved over time from one of despondency and chagrin to that of solidarity and courage—but not optimism.

Brooks, 26 For example, Balzac's friend Henri de Latouche had a good knowledge of hanging wallpaper.

Brooks, 27 "What Balzac started", observes Lehan, "Flaubert helped finish".

Brooks, 54 This influence shows in Flaubert's work L'éducation sentimentale which owes a debt to Balzac's Illusions Perdues.

During this time Balzac began to understand the vagaries of human nature.