| 单词 | Balzac |
| 例句 | I decided immediately that I wanted to write like Balzac. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z On the other wall there was a mural showing Homer, Dante, Tolstoi, Balzac, and Shakespeare engaged in conversation. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Where Anatole France’s work had been about ideas and wit, and Thomas Mann had been about precision and the ordering of character and plot, Honoré de Balzac, to me, was all about character. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z That every year, on her birthday, her father would present her with another puzzle and another novel, and she would read all of Jules Verne and all of Dumas and maybe even Balzac and Proust? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z “If I had but the pen of a Balzac! I would depict this scene.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z I was so taken by Balzac that, in my imagination, I gave him a typewriter so that we would have more in common. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z I wanted to learn French because I wanted to read Balzac’s dialog in French. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z The sage of poststructuralism extracts meaning from a short story by Balzac with the care of someone removing kipper bones from their teeth. John Sutherland's top 10 books about books 2010-12-30T10:36:30Z On the other hand Les Misérables gave him the chance to emulate the greatest French authors of the realistic trend from Balzac to Eugène Sue. How Hugo and Manet unveiled Paris's poor and privileged faces 2013-01-26T19:30:01Z Back in Paris he lent a similar presence to Rodin’s plaster sculpture of Balzac, photographing it on a moonlit terrace. Art Review: Photography: A Coming-of-Age Story 2010-11-19T07:00:00Z Balzac is scolded for being “an ecstatic, compulsive gorger and borderline glutton” who devoured “congealed cold cuts and other toxic snacks.” France’s Love Affair With Food 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z And for older students, he would select something much tougher: “Lost Illusions,” by Honoré de Balzac. Perspective | How Dr. Seuss’s ‘Oh, the Places You’ll Go’ became a graduation-gift cliche 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z The great realist writers of the 19th century — Stendhal, Balzac, Dickens, Maupassant, Zola and Dostoyevsky — made the subject central to modern literature. Pankaj Mishra Says Faulkner’s Work Is ‘Atrociously Written,’ and Great 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z Simon has memorably said: “Our model when we started wasn’t other television shows. The standard we were looking at was Balzac’s Paris or Dickens’s London, or Tolstoy’s Moscow.” ‘Progress is painfully uneven’: Baltimore, 15 years after The Wire 2017-05-27T04:00:00Z Balzac, one of the fathers of literary realism, was a pioneer of what a later century would call the systems novel, and his explanatory zeal, far from didactic, is almost always delightful. ‘Lost Illusions’ Review: The Sweet Smell of Success 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z He couldn't have simplified the Balzac – he couldn't have started with the idea of a draped figure. Henry Moore talks about Rodin's irresistible influence – from the archive 2013-03-23T07:59:02Z I lounged at the Canal St.-Martin to watch games of boules, and searched for the tombs of Balzac, Delacroix and Jim Morrison at Père-Lachaise cemetery. My Paris: Seduced by the Past 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z If The Wire, the only series worthy of being bracketed alongside The Sopranos, reminded of 19th-century novelists like Dickens and Balzac in its extensive depiction of societal layers, then The Sopranos was Shakespearean. The Sopranos: 10 years since it finished, it's still the most masterful show ever 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z A handful of authors have similarly defined the periods in which they lived — Dickens, Tolstoy, Balzac, Flaubert — creators of unforgettable characters and the very air they seem to breathe. Perspective | John le Carré didn’t just invent the characters in the foreground of the spy world. He designed the entire set. 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z Voisin, who has the mother-of-pearl skin that Balzac writes about, is perfectly cast as the naïve young poet who generates pity when he is foppish and humiliated at the theater. "Lost Illusions" is a sumptuous period piece on the allure of fame, followers and fake news 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z Unlike a character out of, say, Balzac, Frederic drifts with the tide. ‘Flaubert in the Ruins of Paris,’ by Peter Brooks 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z There is the child heroine herself – an omnivorous reader who devours Dickens and Balzac in the local library – and the familiar trope of the missed education. Maid in England 2011-08-19T21:55:04Z Behind every great fortune, someone once said — not quite Balzac, though he often gets the credit — lies a great crime. ‘First Cow’ Review: The Milk of Human Kindness 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z Neither the relatively conservative Balzac nor the more radical Hugo skimp on the ugly side of French life during this period. Perspective | I returned to the National Gallery seeking comfort. But art no longer feels like an escape. 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z There are original manuscripts by Alexandre Dumas and Honore de Balzac, emotional correspondence from Admiral Nelson and Napoleon I, and operatic scores drafted by Richard Strauss, among many others. Marquis de Sade erotic novel, or some quantum theory? You choose 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z Like all truly great writers, Balzac reserves some of his deepest sympathy — and his greatest artistry — for his most depraved characters. Daniel Mendelsohn: By the Book 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z That passage sleepwalks along until it builds up to a quotation from Balzac, who has nothing to do with this book. Books of The Times: The Parisian Experience of American Pioneers 2011-05-22T22:02:06Z French President Nicolas Sarkozy proclaimed him an artist in the class of Balzac and Rabelais — "a great auteur and a great filmmaker." Claude Chabrol, French New Wave Director, Dies at 80 2010-09-15T18:45:00Z It’s the horror and absurdity of life in a totalitarian state as it might have been depicted by Balzac. 2012′s best — so far 2012-07-04T14:00:00Z Looking into these works, Colin becomes convinced that there is a contemporary iteration of the mysterious power-brokering group that Balzac created and called “the Thirteen.” Review: Jacques Rivette’s 1971 Film, ‘Out 1: Noli Me Tangere’ 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z If any Times readers know which Balzac book this wind is in — please let me know. Laurie Anderson Needs Your Help Finding an Image From Balzac 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z The shelves are finished with crown moldings, atop which perch small white busts, all of which were specially chosen: George Washington, Lafayette, Pierre de Ronsard, Benjamin Franklin, Diderot, Voltaire, Leibniz, Tocqueville, Descartes, Molière, and Balzac. Albertine Reparue: A French Bookshop in New York 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z “You’ll read much of that in both Tolstoy and Balzac,” she said. dance: Tharp Is Back Where the Air Is Rarefied 2010-03-05T21:17:00Z Most novels treat setting as if where people now live matters as much to us as it did to Balzac. David Shields: Literature saved my life! 2013-02-09T00:30:00Z With the exception of Henry James, most nineteenth-century novelists—be they Balzac, Dickens or Dostoyevsky—have disdained their wealthy characters, tending to burden them with equal parts animal cunning and moral laxity. The Rich in Fiction 2015-09-12T04:00:00Z “For them it was as important for us to watch the movies of important directors,” she says, “as to read the novels of Balzac or Zola.” The female directors bringing new blood to horror films 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z Whitman is to be buried in Paris' venerable Pere Lachaise cemetery, where the remains of giants of literature including Oscar Wilde, Balzac and French poet Guillaume Apollinaire rest, the posting said. Founder of Paris bookstore Shakespeare & Co. dies 2011-12-14T18:58:08Z Description here is purely subjective and takes centre stage, whereas in Balzac, for instance, it simply sets the scene by lending the plot an air of authenticity. In theory: Towards a New Novel 2010-05-13T15:17:00Z At that point, she could not have realized that beneath the novel’s meticulously layered depictions of court life in Heian Japan is a revenge plot worthy of Balzac. The Radiant Prince Comes to Fifth Avenue 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z Truffaut was a film-maker who grew up obsessed equally with Honoré de Balzac and Alfred Hitchcock. Truffaut: growing backwards into childhood 2011-02-19T00:05:31Z Here was a creation worthy of Dickens, Balzac or Dostoevsky. A Hungry Singer, Consuming His Roles 2011-04-17T00:31:06Z "I was thinking of Balzac myself," he said. How I lost my festival virginity to Howard 2010-08-21T23:09:00Z “No, Steichen, night,” Rodin tells the photographer Edward, referring to the best time to shoot the finished Balzac monument. Review: ‘Rodin,’ a Biopic Heavy as Stone 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z There are hundreds of novels in which elderly characters feature – in the great works of Dickens, Dostoevsky and Balzac, for example. Paul Bailey's top 10 stories of old age 2011-02-02T11:31:42Z “In the desert, you see, there is everything and there is nothing,” Balzac wrote. The Timbisha Shoshone of Death Valley and the Shadow of Trump 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z In the book, Piketty used examples from Jane Austen and Honoré de Balzac to explain how currencies and the investment value of land were understood during those authors’ lifetimes. ‘Capital in the Twenty-First Century’ Review: Economic History, Illustrated 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z Balzac’s society might have thought so; now we ask how that land was first acquired. The Secrets of an American Fortune, Told Four Ways 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z While most of his fellow artists wrote him off as a joke, Abbott believed that his devotion to realism made him “a Balzac of the camera.” Berenice Abbott: She Was a Camera 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z Based on The Unknown Masterpiece, Balzac's celebrated story of the painter who goes mad trying to paint the perfect nude, it is a most mysterious trilogy, partly because unfinished in itself. Richard Hamilton: The Late Work; Mel Bochner: If the Colour Changes – review 2012-10-13T23:06:10Z Spencer understood her state’s politics and sexual secrets as Balzac knew First Empire France. How the Bible Divided, and United, Allan Gurganus and His Father 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z Van Gogh eagerly devoured anything he could find by Balzac, Dickens, Zola and other favorite authors. Review | Miss going to the bookstore? Here are some books about books to help get you through. 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z “Fitzgerald was right, and almost for that remark alone he must surely have been received in Balzac’s bosom in the heaven of novelists.” The Rich in Fiction 2015-09-12T04:00:00Z Even the BBC's own adaptations shy away from works that were not originally written in English: they used to serialise Balzac, Zola, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, both the Dumas, and Stendhal. The sad disappearance of foreign TV 2010-09-01T12:30:00Z I was thinking about Stendhal and Balzac and Tolstoy in particular, especially in terms of all the permissions they had that, I came to realize, I didn’t feel I had. ArtsBeat: Q. & A.: John Lanchester on 'Capital' 2012-06-13T16:28:11Z And we thought it was very chic to have a Balzac restroom. Albertine Reparue: A French Bookshop in New York 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z There are original manuscripts by Alexandre Dumas and Honore de Balzac, emotional correspondence from Admiral Nelson and Napoleon I, and operatic scores drafted by Richard Strauss, among many others. Marquis de Sade erotic novel, or some quantum theory? You choose 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z Balzac puts those words in the mouth of a master criminal, and then adds a final twist. The Secrets of an American Fortune, Told Four Ways 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z I remember visiting the Los Angeles County Museum of Art where a cast of Auguste Rodin’s monumental sculpture of Balzac towered over me. For Future Generations, It’s Time to Reflect on Black Art 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z Honestly, these covers are beyond belief, from the literal take on The Turn of the Screw to this Mills & Boonesque Balzac. World's worst book covers: would these make their authors cry? 2012-10-04T12:31:46Z For Balzac, the battle raged until his death at 51: he wrote 91 long and short works of fiction in the space of just 16 years. Bacon and eggs for every meal: absurd diets of the rich and famous 2017-10-15T04:00:00Z He went off on “a Balzac mania” a few years ago, he said. Taming Ives With Head, Heart and Humor 2010-10-03T02:00:00Z "Nadar," he writes, "recalled that Balzac had a theory of the self, according to which a person's essence was made up of a near-infinite series of spectral layers, one superimposed on the next." Julian Barnes 2013-03-30T07:00:25Z There are fiction writers I admire, whose work tends to the essayistic, who take on positions – George Eliot, Balzac, Fielding – and the strength of their work is in the freedom, the unshackling, that fiction affords. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Facts are stranger than fiction 2013-04-19T17:29:01Z Mixed in with the pop-culture mentions are nods to Emily Dickinson, Émile Zola and Honoré de Balzac. Helen Oyeyemi Dishes Up Magic in Her New Novel, ‘Gingerbread’ 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z The world speaks of Dickens’s London, Balzac’s Paris and Rushdie’s Bombay, but the association between Mr. Márquez and Cartagena is less well known. Love and Cartagena: Gabriel Garc?a M?rquez Dreamed Here 2010-04-29T22:16:00Z For all his apparent and avowed classicism of characterized drama, for all his devotion to the realism of Balzac and Dreiser, Bellow is a modernist despite himself. Catching Saul Bellow's Mind in Constant, Roiling Action 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z "I wear two hats," he said in the 2006 interview, likening himself to Honore de Balzac in producing a combination of human comedy, acute social portraits and ghost stories. Mexican novelist, essayist Carlos Fuentes dies 2012-05-16T04:01:04Z There isn’t much in his work that would have surprised Balzac or Dickens. New on DVD, ‘Fritz Lang: The Early Works’ 2012-11-09T23:32:07Z Balzac was a prodigious coffee drinker, and the movie, though its characters run on champagne and schadenfreude, is nothing if not caffeinated. ‘Lost Illusions’ Review: The Sweet Smell of Success 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z A dictation from Balzac is too difficult for his students. Movie Review: ?Monsieur Lazhar,? Oscar Nominee From Philippe Falardeau 2012-04-12T21:50:36Z This time, though, I'll make sure I pass Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress on. Books found in strange places: share your stories 2012-12-13T16:23:30Z Edward Steichen’s dramatically moody photographs of Rodin’s masterpiece, his strangely leaning monument to the novelist Honoré de Balzac, emphasize the sculptor’s influential vision of Balzac as a self-creating demiurge. Rodin From Every Angle: A Cornucopia of Shows for the Holidays 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z Later, libraries and secondhand bookshops helped him build his own “house of books” composed of Poe and Baudelaire, Balzac and Dostoyevsky. His Short Story Inspired ‘Rashomon.’ His Life Has Inspired a Novel. 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z On the other hand, I'm not much into Baudelaire, Balzac and Voltaire. World literature tour: France 2011-03-28T11:30:33Z It’s the opposite of being a flâneur: I’m not practicing what Balzac called “the gastronomy of the eye,” feasting on the rich details of the world around me as if it were a novel. A Book Lover's Guide to Reading and Walking at the Same Time 2012-06-06T10:45:16Z I read “A Woman of Thirty” while looking for a Balzac book that begins with an image that has haunted me for a long time. Laurie Anderson Needs Your Help Finding an Image From Balzac 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z "If the answer was Balzac, Dickens, Elliot, Tolstoy or Trollope," Ferguson writes, or especially Thomas Mann, "the candidate was almost certain to be employed." 'High Financier': Niall Ferguson on the banker who helped make London a capital of finance 2010-06-23T23:38:00Z “It’s like Balzac’s ‘Scenes from Private Life,’ ” Marías said of the novel. The Worldly Digressions of Javier Marías 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z When he achieves that, the sculptures can take on the near-abstraction of Rodin’s Balzac, in the gallery right outside the Met show. Charles Ray Is Pushing Sculpture to Its Limit 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z In one he speculates on the erotic implications associated with the title of Balzac’s novel “A Woman of Thirty.” ‘Truth thrives in the margins’ and other insights from a master essayist 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z Central to Marías's novel is Balzac's colonel, a man supposed dead who returns among the living, much like the dead Desverne returns to haunt the minds of the survivors. The Infatuations by Javier Marías – review 2013-03-01T17:30:01Z For all his faults, Truffaut expresses a comprehensive sense of human failings and human fortitude, lessons learned from his heroes, Balzac and Jean Renoir. Truffaut: growing backwards into childhood 2011-02-19T00:05:31Z There’s no Balzac drama, no courtship, no intrigue, just a rush to the porcelain and, if you’re reckless with money, a cheap glass of barely palatable wine. Perspective | What we loathe about intermissions 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z Backman writes about hockey the way Balzac writes about, say, the French military, meaning that his point lies far from his subject. Review | Fredrik Backman returns to Beartown in ‘Us Against You’ 2018-05-28T04:00:00Z In “Black White Forward,” a tall black and white panel with beige brush strokes and tacky surfaces leaning back like Rodin’s “Balzac,” the exemplary colors of mechanical reproduction feel curiously concrete. For David Smith, Sculptor and Painter, a Happy Equilibrium in White 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z Jonathan Dee’s “The Locals” is a large, lumbering novel, set in the southern Berkshires, that strives for a bit of what Henry James called “the big Balzac authority.” Boom, Bust and a Berkshires Interloper in ‘The Locals’ 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z Flaubert and Balzac are the twin godfathers of this powerful novella. The Misunderstanding by Irène Némirovsky – review 2013-07-12T14:59:00Z Balzac was difficult; Tolstoy was difficult; my mother can be difficult. Portrait of the artist: Angela Gheorghiu, soprano 2011-07-18T21:31:00Z At the time I thought this was a good idea because I often reach for Barthes, Balzac, Camus, Duras, so reckoned it made sense to find them all in one room. Deborah Levy Would Like to Drink With Virginia Woolf 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z Balzac and Dumas mentioned it in their fiction. Review: Meyerbeer's rare 'Robert' staged in London 2012-12-13T11:21:08Z This was Part Two of the phenomenal collection of metal objets d’art amassed by a character who might have stepped straight out of a novel by Honoré de Balzac. An Auction Brings to Light a French Collector With an Eye for Ignored Beauty 2010-05-28T12:00:00Z In the 1980s the bodies of the nudes pressed into the surrounding space, their three-dimensionality and almost modelled impasto describing deeply contoured forms like those within Freud's favourite bronzes by Rodin, Naked Balzac and Iris. Lucian Freud obituary 2011-07-21T21:08:42Z Perching on the floor like an insect, seemingly too delicate to bear its own weight, it leans away from the viewer like Rodin’s “Monument to Balzac.” What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z "I wear two hats," he said, likening himself to French author Honore de Balzac in producing a combination of human comedy, acute social portraits and ghost stories. Appreciating Mexican author Carlos Fuentes 2012-05-16T12:24:11Z I adore everything by Balzac and Zola but especially “The Kill,” which has one of the most beautiful seduction scenes in literature. Simon Sebag Montefiore: By the Book 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z The city’s greatest exponents seem to latch on to it as Balzac’s Lucien Chardon latches on to Paris, in “Lost Illusions,” after arriving from the provinces: Dawn Powell, Andy Warhol, et al. David Bowman and the Furry-Girl School of American Fiction 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z Balzac, Simone de Beauvoir and many from the Enlightenment period. Just Asking: Shireen Lewis 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z Plenty of towering literary figures — among them Balzac, Turgenev, and the Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Jane Smiley — have taken inspiration from King Lear. Edward St. Aubyn on the Challenge of Reimagining Shakespeare 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z We do not talk of Tolstoy or Balzac or Hawthorne as “historical novelists” any more than we think of Shakespeare as a historical playwright. For Literary Novelists the Past Is Pressing 2021-06-13T04:00:00Z Whereas Mr Piketty offered long ruminations on Honoré de Balzac, Sir Anthony’s is a crunchy book that analyses policy discussions in detail but avoids dullness, thanks to its unapologetic support for aggressive government intervention. Mind the gap 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z And photographs of Patti Smith draped in white gauze echo a Rodin study for his famous sculpture of Balzac, in which he shrouded the writer’s sculpted body with fabric dipped in wet plaster. Mapplethorpe: A Sculptural Perspective 2014-04-15T13:18:50Z “Lost Illusions,” Honoré de Balzac’s novel of Parisian literary life, stands as a stellar example in its period and now, thanks to Xavier Giannoli’s invigorating screen adaptation, in ours as well. ‘Lost Illusions’ Review: The Sweet Smell of Success 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z Honoré de Balzac of France depicted the seedy side of life in French cities, often focusing on stories of crime. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z In it, he explored his own experiences with the drug cannabis at the Paris-based Club des Hachichins—some of which took place alongside the likes of Victor Hugo, Honoré de Balzac and Charles Baudelaire. Heavy Cannabis Use Linked to Schizophrenia Especially among Young Men 2023-05-06T04:00:00Z At an elevation, he looked like a haggard Rodin bust of Balzac. Charles Bukowski and Wanda Coleman gave me a reason to keep writing 2023-04-13T04:00:00Z Until then, however, remember Honoré de Balzac’s advice: “Believe everything you hear about the world; nothing is too impossibly bad.” Opinion | How ‘I despise, therefore I am’ locks in the political status quo 2023-04-12T04:00:00Z The academy noted that Oe’s work has been strongly influenced by Western writers, including Dante, Poe, Rabelais, Balzac, Eliot and Sartre. Japan’s Kenzaburo Oe, awarded Nobel for poetic fiction, dies 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z Robb began his career as a scholar of 19th-century French literature in the 1990s with lively biographies of Balzac, Hugo and Rimbaud. Review | A joyful tour of French history, from main avenues to back roads 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z But the very next year, New York’s Museum of Modern Art was gifted a large bronze version of Rodin’s “Monument to Balzac” in memory of the art dealer Curt Valentin. Review | Rodin never visited America, but he still seduced its art lovers 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z “Lost Illusions,” Honoré de Balzac’s novel of Parisian literary life, stands as a stellar example in its period, and now, thanks to Xavier Giannoli’s invigorating screen adaptation, in ours as well. 3 movies open June 24 at Seattle-area theaters; here’s what to see 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z “Lost Illusions,” a film adaptation of the Balzac novel by the same name, paints a picture of ambition and corruption in 19th-century France. Your Tuesday Briefing 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z “Lost Illusions,” an adaptation of a Balzac novel, shows the brazen immorality of 19th-century Parisian literary life. Your Monday Briefing: Russia Encircles Sievierdonetsk 2022-06-12T04:00:00Z The French novelist Honoré de Balzac was right: “The secret of great fortunes with no obvious source is a crime, forgotten because it was well executed.” Opinion | Harvard’s history with slavery reveals an ugly truth about America 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z The Clark exhibition has all the greatest hits, with versions of “The Thinker,” “Monument to Balzac,” “The Prodigal Son,” “Iris” and “The Kiss.” Review | Rodin never visited America, but he still seduced its art lovers 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z Balzac reportedly said that behind every great fortune is a great crime. Review | Democracy is under threat. Are billionaires to blame? 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z Realism in literature flourished in France with writers such as Honoré de Balzac and Émile Zola. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z An editorial in the center-right daily Le Figaro noted this week that it was a French writer, Honoré de Balzac, who described scandal as “the pedestal of success.” In France, a Right-Wing Polemicist Tries Channeling De Gaulle to Win Votes 2021-12-04T05:00:00Z Characters mugged for the camera and self-consciously name-dropped writers such as Rainer Maria Rilke and Honoré de Balzac as well as Hollywood stars and directors. Jean-Paul Belmondo, jaunty star of New Wave classic ‘Breathless,’ dies at 88 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z Then, when I was able to make out the book she was reading, Balzac’s “Cousin Bette,” my suspicions were confirmed. ‘When I Got to the Museum, I Was Told I Could Not Check My Luggage’ 2021-09-05T04:00:00Z “What struck me was the way in which he would talk about Stendhal or Dickens or Eliot or Balzac as though they were fellow craftsmen,” Green said. Kazuo Ishiguro Sees What the Future Is Doing to Us 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z Balzac wrote a massive series of almost 100 novels entitled The Human Comedy. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z LeBlanc writes about the lives of a cast of interconnected characters, giving them a depth and a sense of tragedy that makes one think of the rich world of Balzac’s sprawling novels. Books to broaden your horizons, by Hilary Mantel, Simon Schama, Lisa Taddeo and more 2020-05-23T04:00:00Z Among other things, it is a testimonial to Balzac’s famous aphorism, “Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.” Review: Sam Wasson takes a deep dive into 'Chinatown' 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z “Somehow it occurred to them to write an adaptation of a Balzac play,” Susan Lewis said, referring to the French author. Edward Lewis, ‘Spartacus’ producer who helped break the blacklist, dies at 99 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z At his dinner parties, Hugo would list the reasons why he was superior to Balzac, Racine and while he was at it, all other French writers. Party tricks and naked writing: the eccentric life of Victor Hugo 2018-12-30T05:00:00Z Bulgaria’s intelligence agents were bureaucrats, not Balzac: the idea that a few undereducated employees of State Security invented reports about a postmodernist philosopher veers into the territory of weird conspiracy. Was the Philosopher Julia Kristeva a Cold War Collaborator? 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z “Whoever does not visit Paris regularly will never truly be elegant,” Balzac wrote in 1830, and it is an image that the world’s centre of luxury shopping is keen to uphold. Chanel shoes, but no salary: how one woman exposed the scandal of the French fashion industry 2018-09-02T04:00:00Z Practically every realist novel, from Austen and Balzac to James and Wharton, is about people behaving badly around money. Francis Fukuyama Postpones the End of History 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z In his memoir, the 19th-century French photographer Félix Nadar wrote that writer Honoré de Balzac believed physical bodies were made of layers of ghostly images that were laid atop one another like thin skins. Perspective | An unnerving Father’s Day gift has left me pondering portraiture — and the soul 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z Rodin, meanwhile, behaves like an underappreciated outsider, even as he lines up gigs memorializing storied figures such as Victor Hugo and Honoré de Balzac. The biopic 'Rodin' about the famous French sculptor lacks shape and drama 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z It’s Faulkner cross-pollinated with Balzac, modernist techniques used to paint a sweeping historical panorama. The Elder Statesman of Latin American Literature — and a Writer of Our Moment 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z Balzac This applies to many companies as well as individuals, even ones that spend their fortunes in altruistic ways. Opinion | Can Your Hip Replacement Kill You? 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z The reference point is more Balzac than Kafka, he says. Salman Rushdie Plays the Trump Card 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z The city is full of museums dedicated to writers, from Honoré de Balzac to Victor Hugo. The cult of Babel: Odessa's literary flashmobs attract book-loving tourists 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z Schoolchildren in France study a famous caricature that he drew featuring the great figures of French letters, such as Honoré de Balzac and Victor Hugo, marching in a procession. See Pictures by the First Great Portrait Photographer 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z He buried himself in novels by Alexandre Dumas, Victor Hugo, Charles Dickens and Honoré de Balzac, dreaming of a life filled with adventure. The Elder Statesman of Latin American Literature — and a Writer of Our Moment 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z So I set a goal for myself, through all seven years of undergrad and grad school, of reading 50 literature books a year — Kafka, Balzac, Dostoyevsky, all the classics. Mark Nathan on Bringing Your Teflon to Get Honest Feedback 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z “Balzac is interesting because he wrote more about painters than about painting,” Muhlstein continues, “but Zola did really write about painting and the effect on the way he wrote was so strong. “ A brush with art: Anka Muhlstein on Zola, Proust and the painters they knew best 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z “It’s really fun working with them,” said Ricky Balzac, of the Balzac Brothers and Co., Orthodox monastery adds specialty coffee roastery 2016-12-03T05:00:00Z Heading into the center of the city, we see the magnificent Place Vendome Column, erected in honor of Napoleon by Balzac. TRAVEL: Paris luxury day trip package from London offers grand taste of French capital 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z Zamenhof was one of those nineteenth-century notables—Balzac, Dickens, Pasteur, Freud, Marie Curie—who seem to have slept only about three hours a night. A Language to Unite Humankind 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z James’s or Balzac’s words can describe paintings the crazy artists can’t actually paint, or intuit canvases that were as of yet unpainted, unpaintable. “The Polish Rider” 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z She is, however, a Goncourt Prize-winning biographer and the author of recent volumes on two of those giants, Balzac and Proust. A brush with art: Anka Muhlstein on Zola, Proust and the painters they knew best 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z Ricky Balzac described an extensive sampling process in which he, his brother, sister, father and other staff first roast a sample from a courting grower. Orthodox monastery adds specialty coffee roastery 2016-12-03T05:00:00Z Honoré de Balzac ate a steak a day while writing his novels. The raw and the cooked 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z As I drove away, I recalled the words of another native son—one perhaps more famous than Rabelais—Honoré de Balzac. The Best-Value French Wines for Your Money 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z Historical assessments of Devoy often compare him to Lenin for what he contributed to the cause of Irish independence, and someone once observed that “only the pen of Balzac could do him justice.” The American Influence on Ireland's 1916 Easter Rising 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z He had Proust, too, about whom he wrote perceptively, and Balzac, and the company of a few loyal friends. ‘I am ashamed to be sad’: the remarkable story of a Jewish student in 1920s Romania 2016-03-19T04:00:00Z “We sort of see the industry moving more toward specialties,” Balzac said. Orthodox monastery adds specialty coffee roastery 2016-12-03T05:00:00Z In that sense, he makes me think of writers like Balzac or Flaubert or Alexandre Dumas, who had, seemingly, more ideas than they could write and were very generous about it. Matz and David Fincher's 'The Black Dahlia' adaptation to be released in English 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z Or: “Manfred pressed my left hand flat between his hands and said that I had a Balzac thing going with coffee.” Novels of Desire 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z Mr. Sinet said he and his partners chose Montmartre because they considered the atmosphere more welcoming than the city’s largest cemetery, Père Lachaise, which holds the tombs of Proust, Molière and Balzac. French Artists Will Take Their Irreverence to the Grave 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z Jaime Balzac, the Coast Guard’s Sector San Juan Command Duty officer, said a cutter recovered the body Saturday after a sighting by a search helicopter. Coast Guard finds body believed to be missing Chilean man 2015-11-28T05:00:00Z From Byron to Balzac, Walt Whitman to La Fontaine, China’s bibliophile leader has repeatedly used overseas speeches to show off the depth of his literary knowledge. Publishers under pressure as China's censors reach for red pen 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z She gestured in the direction of the famous statue of the French novelist Honoré de Balzac by the celebrated French sculptor Auguste Rodin. Olga Hirshhorn, art collector and wife of museum founder, dies at 95 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z He read Charles Dickens and Honoré de Balzac, Fyodor Dostoevsky and Henry James, the entire canon of Western literature, which he made his own. Ta-Nehisi Coates’ brilliant inspiration: Remembering James Baldwin’s influence on his 91st birthday 2015-08-02T04:00:00Z You get the sense that he’s a true intellectual through his book collection: architecture books, Marcel Proust, Balzac, and more high-brow literature graces his shelves. Artists Elmgreen and Dragset Continue the Story of Norman Swann with "Past Tomorrow" 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z Shortly after arriving I ran into the affable Paul Wagner whose PR company, Balzac Communications, organizes these shindigs, and I asked him how he would categorize the 2012′s. Bordeaux 2012 All You Need To Know 2015-01-31T05:00:00Z She is visiting Père Lachaise, the astounding 19th-century Parisian cemetery where lie the graves of Chopin, Colette, Proust, Balzac and Oscar Wilde. A Review of ‘Forever’ in New Haven 2015-01-17T05:00:00Z The answer seems to be that that Mr. Hughes, who reads Honoré de Balzac in the original French, doesn’t see himself as a typical Silicon Valley millionaire. Revolt at the New New Republic 2014-12-07T05:00:00Z During the early nineties, he tried Balzac’s caffeine regime, drinking dozens of cups of coffee a day. Hans Ulrich Obrist, the Curator Who Never Sleeps 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z “Imagine Geneva, lost in a desert,” Honoré de Balzac quipped. Three books on Berlin, from the fall of the wall to today Our conversation defaults to her favourite exemplars, Dickens, Balzac and the bestselling writers of the 19th century. Jane Smiley: ‘All you need is for one reader to love your book’ 2014-10-26T04:00:00Z French writer Honore de Balzac and directors Martin Scorsese and Oliver Stone are inspirations, Zhang says. China entrepreneur turns to film to take on social issues 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z Prolific writer Honoré de Balzac even went so far as to occasionally drink as many as 50 cups of coffee a day. 5 Ways Successful People Structure Their Day 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z When Capital in the Twenty-First Century turns to analysis, Piketty deftly works in Honoré de Balzac and Jane Austen. Piketty's Capital: An Economist's Inequality Ideas Are All the Rage 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z He is also not afraid of literature, finding inspiration in the descriptions of society in the realist novels of Jane Austen and Balzac. Taking on Adam Smith (and Karl Marx) 2014-04-19T16:57:43Z “When you see how hard Balzac worked, you’ll never complain again.” Jane Smiley: ‘All you need is for one reader to love your book’ 2014-10-26T04:00:00Z In the interview with Rude Pravo, Mr. Bilak said he enjoyed reading memoirs and historical literature, and cited Tolstoy, Balzac and Hemingway as among his favorite writers. Vasil Bilak, Czechoslovak Communist Who Encouraged 1968 Soviet Invasion, Dies at 96 2014-02-07T03:51:41Z According to one biographer, the French novelist and playwright Balzac drank as many as 50 cups of coffee a day. Are people drinking too much coffee? 2013-05-23T00:58:11Z She wrote poems and read Flaubert, Balzac and Zola because “literature goes with loneliness,” and when she got a bicycle, her bodyguards followed her on bicycles, too. The Saturday Profile: Mazarine Pingeot, Mitterrand Daughter, Looks Back 2012-12-01T01:00:42Z At one point Riddle referenced a French novelist to point out that the argument was about the use of everyday language: "We're not talking about Balzac". Terry's trial hears final speeches 2012-07-12T14:00:45Z Smiley recalls visiting the Balzac museum in Paris and gazing in wonder at the displays of page proofs with Balzac’s painstaking corrections scratched between the lines in a tiny hand. Jane Smiley: ‘All you need is for one reader to love your book’ 2014-10-26T04:00:00Z The story of his career is as romantic as any by Balzac. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z Mr. Ye said he aimed to compose music about his society in the way the great 19th-century European writers, like Balzac and Tolstoy, wrote novels about theirs. Letter from China: A Chinese Composer Sounds Off About Music and Politics 2012-05-16T09:50:12Z Balzac said the best epitaphs were single names. The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett 2012-04-26T02:00:17.327Z To have read through a story of Balzac’s is to have passed through one of those wonderfully vivid dreams which leave you puzzled and lost at the moment of awaking. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 2012-04-18T02:00:17.060Z Balzac, in some respects the master novelist, was clearly conscious of this aim of his art; and his Comédie Humaine is a supreme effort to grasp the whole range of French society. Shelburne Essays, Third Series 2012-04-16T02:00:02.027Z Balzac put him in a book, so did George Sand. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z Caro is a little like Balzac, who kept fussing over his books even after they were published. Robert Caro?s Big Dig 2012-04-12T19:48:16Z "It's like something out of Balzac," he exclaimed. Mortal Coils 2012-04-06T02:00:30.740Z Dumas, Balzac, and many another celebrity sued for her favor. Superwomen 2012-04-03T02:00:38.047Z I think there was something like a gleam of the poetic in the half melancholy half humorous introduction of Balzac's famous "Peau de Chagrin," into the Protoplasm lecture. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z He had the entire set of Balzac's works in the original, luxuriously and massively bound. The Story of the Great Fire in St. John, N.B., June 20th, 1877 2012-03-27T02:00:21.067Z His literary style is a simple and limpid medium that leaves behind unfading pictures of country and town; he has done what Balzac calls adding new beings � l'�tat civil. Heroic Spain 2012-03-26T02:00:38.797Z Everything else pins it down, and men flee for redress to Byron, Scott, Disraeli, Dumas, Sand, Balzac, Dickens, Thackeray and Reade. The English Novel And the Principle of its Development 2012-03-21T02:00:37.123Z Death of Balzac, and notice of his life and works, 711. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 2012-03-21T02:00:31.390Z Balzac is on the road selling knit-goods, and a mighty good drummer he is sure to be; but poor Flaubert has had hard luck. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z Will Balzac also see that shore, or has he only broken away the bars that hindered others from setting sail? Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. 2012-03-05T03:00:13.070Z I am afraid Wordsworth was often affected in his simplicity, and De Balzac in his finish. Modern Painters. Vol. III (of V) Containing Part IV. Of Many Things 2012-02-20T03:00:15.843Z December 12.—There is a phrase of Balzac which turns over and over in my head. Spiritual Adventures 2012-02-17T03:00:27.070Z He admired genius where he found it, in a few solitaries such as Degas, Poe, Balzac, and Mallarm�. Paul Gauguin, His Life and Art 2012-02-14T03:00:24.393Z What a realistic bombshell he would hurl into the camp of sentimental socialists and them that believe a wedding certificate is like Balzac's La Peau de Chagrin—a document daily shrinking in happiness. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z We have just been reading "Le P�re Goriot," Balzac's most celebrated work; a remarkable production, to which Paris alone, at the present day, could have given birth. Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. 2012-03-05T03:00:13.070Z "There's nothing so easily lost as the creative gift, Balzac said." Poor Relations 2012-02-11T03:04:00.973Z But then I doubt whether such a genius—a man of the faculty of Balzac and Thackeray—could agree with you! The Letters of Henry James (volume I) 2012-02-08T03:00:15.197Z In her brother's library she found George Sand and Balzac, and read such books as he selected for her. Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 2012-01-24T03:00:23.377Z He paints for the sake of beautiful paint; he paints as did Hokusai, the Old-Man-Mad-for-Painting, or like Frenhofer, the hero in Balzac's story, The Unknown Masterpiece! Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z Here end our praises of Balzac; what he is, as a man, in daily life, we know not. Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. 2012-03-05T03:00:13.070Z Of this the late lamented Amelia B. Edwards wrote to her cousin: "It is worthy of Balzac." Notable Women Authors of the Day Biographical Sketches 2012-01-19T03:00:21.017Z Marie-Thérèse Réveillé is walking along Avenue de Friedland near the intersection with Rue Balzac, the headlights of the cars shining in her face. Roberto Bolaño: “Labyrinth.” 2012-01-16T05:00:00Z The same charge has been brought against some of the most facile and productive creators in modern times, such as Scott, Dickens, and Balzac, and, to a certain extent, even Shakspeare. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z But he will never bend the bow of Balzac. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z Dirt, confusion, shabby expedients, living to live,—these are what make poverty terrible and odious, and in these Balzac would seem to have been steeped to the very lips. Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. 2012-03-05T03:00:13.070Z Dr. Hale tousled the ears of Balzac, the big, brown dog whose head was so often on his knee, and said nothing. The Crux 2012-01-12T03:00:12.630Z Dumas, Balzac, and Alfred de Musset were to be seen there twice or thrice a week; the eccentric Lord Seymour, founder of the French Jockey Club, had his own table there. Lola Montez An Adventuress of the 'Forties 2012-01-08T03:00:19.240Z By virtue of the last-named application, Lincoln was enabled to draw from Balzac a "droll story," and locating it in "Egypt"* or in Indiana, pass it off for a purely original conception. Abraham Lincoln, Volume 1 (of 2) The True Story Of A Great Life 2012-01-05T03:00:35.370Z So do the people in Balzac's crowded, electric world. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z Balzac is admirable in his description of look, tone, gesture. Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. 2012-03-05T03:00:13.070Z On the dark piazza across the way she could make out a still figure sitting alone, and the thump of Balzac's heel as he struggled with his intimate enemies told her who it was. The Crux 2012-01-12T03:00:12.630Z Presumably we laugh at Balzac’s characters for the same reason; and presumably we never smile at Falstaff, because he is individual throughout.” The philosophy of B*rtr*nd R*ss*ll 2011-12-30T03:00:24.883Z I've also read The Woman in White, a couple of Balzac's, etc., and a volume of tales by M�rim�e which I will send you if I can by Frank Washburn. Notes of a Son and Brother 2011-12-29T03:00:14.087Z Henry James is a faithful Secretary to Society—the phrase is Balzac's—to the American afloat from his native mooring as well as at home. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z As an observer, when free from exaggeration, he has as good an eye as Balzac, but he is far more rarely thus free, for, in temperament, he is unequal and sometimes muddy. Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. 2012-03-05T03:00:13.070Z Prepare for it by looking over old notes and e-mails to remember specific situations and your actions and behavior at the time, Mr. Balzac says. Career Couch: Annual Reviews, and How to Prepare for Them 2011-12-17T22:19:06Z Mr. Arnold Bennett is reported to have said that if Balzac had seen Pittsburgh, he would have cried: "Give me a pen!" Modern Essays 2011-12-13T03:00:25.577Z It was written at the time when he was living at the Hotel Voltaire in Paris and taking Balzac as his model. Oscar Wilde 2011-12-10T03:00:14.120Z Balzac is still the mighty one in fiction. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z Balzac, we understand, is one of that wretched class of writers who live by the pen. Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. 2012-03-05T03:00:13.070Z But Henry Harper had a tenacity truly remarkable—"the angelic patience of genius," in the phrase of Balzac. The Sailor 2011-12-03T03:00:11.697Z He began by delivering a discourse on "The Lesson of Balzac"—a closely wrought critical study, very attractive in form and tone—at Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania, and was immediately solicited to repeat it elsewhere. The Letters of Henry James, Vol. II 2011-11-18T03:00:26.730Z The pages of Balzac abound in allusions to that mischievous and futile attempt of the Government of the Restoration to rivet on Spaniards fetters that no Frenchman would wear. Southern Spain 2011-11-11T03:00:28.423Z Balzac would have delighted to analyse such a peculiar mania. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z They know best what disadvantages a Frenchman suffers under, and whether it is possible Balzac be still alive, except in his eyes. Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. 2012-03-05T03:00:13.070Z No doubt many will be surprised to find Fielding, Balzac, Tolstoï, and others placed so low in the list as they are. The World's Best Books : A Key to the Treasures of Literature 2011-10-20T02:00:20.857Z There is, therefore, room for new Malherbes and Balzacs, if the days for Balzacs and Malherbes had not to all appearance passed. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" 2011-10-14T02:00:26.280Z Balzac spoke eloquently upon the lustre which men of genius have shed upon their own times. Victor Hugo: His Life and Works 2011-10-07T02:00:23.887Z They live only on the Boulevard Haussmann, which is a compromise, but in spite of p. 443this they have a great deal of the Balzac tone. Lady Barbarina The Siege of London, An International Episode and Other Tales 2011-10-06T02:00:37.063Z But as a writer, never was the modern Mephistopheles, "the spirit that denieth," more worthily represented than by Balzac. Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. 2012-03-05T03:00:13.070Z Balzac took Daumier under his protection from the beginning. The History of the Nineteenth Century in Caricature 2011-10-04T02:00:18.533Z He has need, therefore, of a suitable machine to help him to perform his task, and this machine it is the glory of Balzac to have done more than any other person to create. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" 2011-10-14T02:00:26.280Z Amongst all Victor Hugo's contemporaries there was no greater admirer of the poet than Balzac. Victor Hugo: His Life and Works 2011-10-07T02:00:23.887Z "Well, my dear Balzac!" he said, his rosy face breaking as suddenly into a smile as if a hundred invisible gravers had magically altered its whole clean modelling. The Debit Account 2011-09-21T02:00:33.753Z Thus Balzac, with all his force and fulness of talent, never rises one moment into the region of genius. Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. 2012-03-05T03:00:13.070Z That uncle of my husband's—he was one of the old school—out of a Balzac novel of the provinces. Rough-Hewn 2011-09-20T02:00:15.147Z With something of Balzac and more of Feuillet, Cherbuliez mixed with his observation of society a dose of sentimental and popular romance which offended the younger critics of his day, but he had solid merits. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" 2011-10-14T02:00:26.280Z This coup de soleil was likely to excite Balzac's brain for a long time to come.' Victor Hugo: His Life and Works 2011-10-07T02:00:23.887Z They had been, I fancy, a little surprised that, if I was a Balzac in a dressing-gown, my wife at any rate was no Sand in a flannelette peignoir. The Debit Account 2011-09-21T02:00:33.753Z But Balzac evidently is familiar with that which makes the agony of poverty—its vulgarity. Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. 2012-03-05T03:00:13.070Z “Our greatest writers spent years in France, and everyone here has read a book of Balzac or seen a movie starring French actor Alain Delon.” Paris Journal: Eager Chinese Shoppers Flock to Paris Stores 2011-09-15T00:58:11Z Undoubtedly, however, the “Naturalist” tendency, starting from Balzac and continued through Flaubert, but taking quite a new direction under some of those to be mentioned, is in a manner dominant. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" 2011-10-14T02:00:26.280Z Houghton, Mifflin and Company having agreed to bring out his translation of Balzac, the horizon opened like a fan. Edgar Saltus: The Man 2011-09-13T02:00:36.953Z The P�re Lachaise," he exclaimed, "possesses the tombs of Musset, Balzac, Chopin, La Fontaine, Bizet, of your 'friends' Cuvier and Thiers, and others, but it is too fashionable, too showy.... My Memoirs 2011-09-13T02:00:28.713Z His anatomy is not intended to injure the corpse, or, like that of Balzac, to entertain the intellectual merely. Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. 2012-03-05T03:00:13.070Z The very choice to demolish Balzac speaks to the failure of earlier demolitions to solve the problems here, officials concede. La Courneuve Journal: Razing a French Neighborhood and a Social Engineering Idea 2011-09-07T02:18:07Z The Naturalists proper chiefly developed or seemed to develop one side of Balzac, but almost entirely abandoned his Romantic element. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" 2011-10-14T02:00:26.280Z After Balzac and "The Philosophy of Disenchantment" and "The Anatomy of Negation" were off the press, novel after novel fell from his pen, and the newspaper articles quoted previously were appearing. Edgar Saltus: The Man 2011-09-13T02:00:36.953Z Mariette looks an old peasant woman from one of Balzac's novels. My Memoirs 2011-09-13T02:00:28.713Z But then he has the heart and faith that Balzac wants, yet is less enslaved by emotion than Sand; therefore he has made more impression on his time and place than either. Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. 2012-03-05T03:00:13.070Z Balzac was once a “magnificent” and “convivial” place, said Soraya, the former resident, where neighbors left their doors open and competed to outdo one another with balcony flower arrangements. La Courneuve Journal: Razing a French Neighborhood and a Social Engineering Idea 2011-09-07T02:18:07Z What a subject she would have been for a Balzac! Music-Study in Germany from the Home Correspondence of Amy Fay 2011-09-07T02:00:17.597Z "I have heard of the mad passion of one d'Entragues for you," he went on, looking wildly at her, "and since their grandfather Capitaine Balzac married a Visconti of Milan, those rascals hesitate at nothing." The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories 2011-09-02T02:00:23.810Z The pages of Alfred de Vigny and Balzac answer this emphatically, and to the contrary, and every returning traveller apparently sides with them and not with Stendahl. Castles and Chateaux of Old Touraine and the Loire Country 2011-08-27T02:00:22.057Z These French writers possess the art of plunging at once in medias res, and Balzac places you, in the twinkling of an eye, in one of the lowest boarding-houses of Paris. Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. 2012-03-05T03:00:13.070Z Many of the units that will replace Balzac will be more expensive semiprivate residences, a deliberate effort to change the makeup of the population. La Courneuve Journal: Razing a French Neighborhood and a Social Engineering Idea 2011-09-07T02:18:07Z She is a healthy artist to listen to, but there is nothing of the analytic, no Balzac or Hawthorne about her. Music-Study in Germany from the Home Correspondence of Amy Fay 2011-09-07T02:00:17.597Z In one of them, moreover, Séraphita, we shall find Balzac's most successful and brilliant essays of style as style—essays so different from his general practice, that they have raised some curious speculations. The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories 2011-09-02T02:00:23.810Z Again and again Balzac's words echo in one's ears from his "Sc�ne de la Vie de Province." Castles and Chateaux of Old Touraine and the Loire Country 2011-08-27T02:00:22.057Z A highly clever performance, with little touches that recall both Balzac and Meredith.... Telepathy and the Subliminal Self 2011-08-26T02:00:28.567Z Not Columbus before him, not Balzac after him, realized more keenly the power of money. Great Ralegh 2011-08-16T02:00:43.100Z As for our landlady, it would take a Balzac to do justice to such a combination. Music-Study in Germany from the Home Correspondence of Amy Fay 2011-09-07T02:00:17.597Z It is known that, in the early thirties, Balzac and Gautier were a good deal together, and even worked in some sort of collaboration. The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories 2011-09-02T02:00:23.810Z Here, too, at the extremity of the Rue Nationale, are statues of Descartes and Balzac. Castles and Chateaux of Old Touraine and the Loire Country 2011-08-27T02:00:22.057Z And he said to me, ‘I don’t know if you agree, but it seems to me that France, or at least Paris, is becoming, sociologically, something out of Balzac.’ A Mild-Mannered Maniac 2011-07-29T20:15:26Z He is a lover of good novels, especially such novels as those of Balzac and Thackeray, which present human nature in a rugged, truthful manner. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 5, October 1893 2011-07-30T02:00:16.467Z She is just such a woman as Balzac describes—like Honorine, for instance. Music-Study in Germany from the Home Correspondence of Amy Fay 2011-09-07T02:00:17.597Z But the former, while belonging in kind generally to the Études Philosophiques, connects itself on another side with the Contes Drolatiques, and with Balzac's not rare studies of the Middle Ages. The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories 2011-09-02T02:00:23.810Z Honor� de Balzac, who may well be called one of the historians of Touraine, gave to one of his heroines the name of Langeais. Castles and Chateaux of Old Touraine and the Loire Country 2011-08-27T02:00:22.057Z We live on credit, and that brings present-day society very close to Balzac — a world where nothing is concrete, where there is only speculation, only a game of mirrors.” A Mild-Mannered Maniac 2011-07-29T20:15:26Z “Yes, I like to read Balzac,” Mr. Reed often says. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 5, October 1893 2011-07-30T02:00:16.467Z Balzac, or Flaubert, or that most terrible writer of the modern French school of fiction, the author of 'Le Sabot Rouge,' never described peasant life with more downright veracity. Mathilde Blind 2011-07-27T02:00:25.473Z Nevertheless, at the end we want the touch of Hoffmann rather than that of Balzac; we find something that is not quite perfect, that wants another hand. The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories 2011-09-02T02:00:23.810Z The following selection expresses their quality well and is certainly worthy to rank with the best that Balzac wrote in praise of his beloved Touraine. Castles and Chateaux of Old Touraine and the Loire Country 2011-08-27T02:00:22.057Z Is it not Balzac who tells us that the faintest whisper of a pretty p. 202woman is louder than the trumpet-call of duty? Crying for the Light, Vol. 1 [of 3] or Fifty Years Ago 2011-07-23T02:00:10.740Z No woman novelist is to be ranked among the supreme leaders, worthy to stand by the side of Cervantes and Fielding, Balzac and Tolstoi. A Book About the Theater 2011-07-21T02:00:23.843Z I don’t care a snap for the difference between Balzac and Daudet. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 4, September 1893 2011-07-21T02:00:22.737Z G. S. In order to heighten the narrative tone of this volume, we append here two of Balzac's freshest short stories, though written—at any rate, published—about the same time. The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories 2011-09-02T02:00:23.810Z The principal literary shrine at Tours is the house, in the Rue Nationale, where was born Honor� de Balzac. Castles and Chateaux of Old Touraine and the Loire Country 2011-08-27T02:00:22.057Z Yet I question whether their range can be justly termed narrow as compared with that commanded by any other great English novelist except Scott, or with those of many novelists of other literatures except Balzac. Dickens English Men of Letters 2011-07-13T02:00:19.017Z Although Balzac's books are read and admired—some of them at least—personally he is most unpopular. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 2011-06-29T02:00:23.750Z In many of the libraries I found Lamartine, Balzac, Alexandra Dumas, Eugène Sue, George Sand, De Musset, &c., and many other names less known perhaps in Paris than in Astrakhan. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z I remain, Madame, with respect, your faithful servant, De Balzac. The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories 2011-09-02T02:00:23.810Z Balzac and Flaubert were provincials, and Dumas was a city-dweller,—and there lies the difference between them. Castles and Chateaux of Old Touraine and the Loire Country 2011-08-27T02:00:22.057Z Balzac's remark about killing a Mandarin in China to obtain a fortune, occurred to his mind. The Mandarin's Fan 2011-06-09T02:00:17.540Z But that would not satisfy Balzac, who is notorious for his avarice. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 2011-06-29T02:00:23.750Z There were two couples of young women, one of ladies of a riper age, and one of earnest young men who were mentioning Balzac to each other almost before they had got to New Cross. The Pastor's Wife 2011-06-02T02:00:23.873Z For the rest, Balzac's philosophy is of a distinctly loose sort, and may very well have occurred to him in whole or in part when he was a studious, if irregularly studious, school-boy. The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories 2011-09-02T02:00:23.810Z Balzac has in his Peau de Chagrin pictured the same sort of scenes which were supposed to occur weekly at the Pimodan. The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire with an Introductory Preface by James Huneker 2011-06-01T02:00:22.477Z Balzac introduced into France the fine critical sense of the Italians; Chapelain introduced their formal rules, and imposed the three unities on French tragedy. A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism 2011-05-30T02:00:13.147Z Janin led the way; a host of minor wasps followed in his wake, and threw themselves with deafening hum and sharp sting against the devoted head of M. de Balzac. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 2011-06-29T02:00:23.750Z Balzac, Blake, Bernard Shaw, and Mrs. Florence Barclay were bandied backwards and forwards across the carriage as lightly and familiarly as though they had been balls. The Pastor's Wife 2011-06-02T02:00:23.873Z It is certain that Balzac, unlike Dickens, his fellow voyant, and still more unlike most of the "realists" who claim kindred with him, was a very great reader. The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories 2011-09-02T02:00:23.810Z Gogol generally goes to the country districts for his characters, imitating in this respect Balzac, whose writings have undoubtedly influenced him. The Mantle and Other Stories 2011-05-29T02:00:07.233Z Chapelain and Balzac vulgarized the critical ideas of the Italian Renaissance, and made them popular, human, but inviolable. A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism 2011-05-30T02:00:13.147Z Perhaps, since he blames Balzac for overproduction, and speaks with aversion to the system of bookmaking, he eschewed the society of Dumas for a similar reason. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 2011-06-29T02:00:23.750Z Balzac’s novels do not please him, either as products of genius or as works of art. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z Balzac was really a "full" man in reading as well as thought; and of this reading fulness, the batch of books before us is perhaps the most striking example. The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories 2011-09-02T02:00:23.810Z Madame Bocarme, who probably was a party to the late murder of her brother, for which her husband the Count de Bocarme is to be executed, was an intimate friend of Balzac. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, August, 1851 2011-05-18T02:00:11.200Z The influence of both Chapelain and Balzac on French classicism was considerable. A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism 2011-05-30T02:00:13.147Z It is a thing especially worth regretting that Balzac, in his Swedenborgian researches, could not have fallen in with Blake’s “prophetic” works. William Blake A Critical Essay 2011-05-04T02:00:18.110Z It is not quite a cynic conception of human character and human destiny that Balzac intended thus to express. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z G. S. Gambara exhibits a curious and, it must be admitted, a somewhat incoherent mixture of two of Balzac's chief outside interests—Italy and music. The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories 2011-09-02T02:00:23.810Z The forthcoming memoirs of Balzac will perhaps contain something about this woman, who seems to have won for herself the execration of all France. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, August, 1851 2011-05-18T02:00:11.200Z But the two individuals who first brought into French literature and naturalized the primal critical concepts of Italy were Chapelain and Balzac. A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism 2011-05-30T02:00:13.147Z Balzac asserts; and Balzac cannot blunder or lie. William Blake A Critical Essay 2011-05-04T02:00:18.110Z Balzac evolved the personages of his fiction out of his own consciousness. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z But it was something of a mark of that amateurishness which spoilt Balzac's dealing with the subject to choose the sixteenth century for his text. The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories 2011-09-02T02:00:23.810Z He thinks that Balzac's love for modernity of form prevented him from producing any single book that can rank with the masterpieces of romantic art. Oscar Wilde A Critical Study 2011-05-04T02:00:14.580Z They approach their task in the spirit of Balzac. Humours of Irish Life 2011-04-19T02:00:16.057Z That Lessing and Balzac should be names pronounced in relation itself throws a light on the temper of the speaker. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z The reader there has Balzac at his highest and best. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z Interest of story is not, as has been several times pointed out, at any time Balzac's main appeal, and he has succeeded in it here less than in most other places. The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories 2011-09-02T02:00:23.810Z He felt, like Balzac, that the special paraphernalia of work was likely to induce the proper spirit. Oscar Wilde A Critical Study 2011-05-04T02:00:14.580Z Like Balzac, Boccaccio was unsuccessful in depicting virtuous womanhood. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z Balzac, who was one of those young men in whose company he delighted, declares that whenever Malherbe had written a thousand verses he rested for ten years. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z Mr. Saintsbury, a competent hand, edits a series of translations from Balzac, including the novels just named, together with everything else worth possessing from his industrious pen. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z He has an inherent nobleness unknown to the latter, but unfortunately made subservient to a banality which even the genius of Balzac cannot efface. The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories 2011-09-02T02:00:23.810Z Cyril suggests that Balzac was a realist, and Vivian quotes Baudelaire's saying, that "his very scullions have genius," compares him to Holbein, and points out that he is far more real than life. Oscar Wilde A Critical Study 2011-05-04T02:00:14.580Z Attempting this, he fell, like Balzac, into the absurdities of sentiment. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z Balzac supported him by letter, Vaugelas offered his invaluable grammatical services, and at last the Academy so far accepted the idea as to instruct Chapelain and Vaugelas to report on the subject. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z Musset—the juxtaposition and contrast of the two men irresistibly provokes the reflection—was as much less than Balzac by inferiority of will as he was greater by superiority of genius. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z It was Balzac who reminded us of the fact that nearly all of the most celebrated attachments in history were inspired by women in whom there were noticeable physical defects. The Man Who Pleases and the Woman Who Charms 2011-04-05T02:00:10.347Z "A steady course of Balzac reduces our living friends to shadows and our acquaintances to the shadows of shades." Oscar Wilde A Critical Study 2011-05-04T02:00:14.580Z In the second era of the human mind in France—in the time of Balzac, Mairet, Rotrou, Corneille—applause was given to every thought that surprised by new images, which were called "wit." A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 10 (of 10) From "The Works of Voltaire - A Contemporary Version" 2011-03-31T02:00:21.443Z Bruneti�re has dwelt on Balzac's great service to letters, in the studied cultivation of harmony and lucidity, order and movement. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z But Balzac, instead, forces upon his reader the thought of art by calling its very name. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z Perhaps," says Balzac, "men live by sentiment more than by pleasure. The Man Who Pleases and the Woman Who Charms 2011-04-05T02:00:10.347Z One may mention 'Jean-Christophe' in the same breath with Balzac's 'Lost Illusions'; it is as big as that.... Home Fires in France 2011-03-22T02:00:24.093Z The bad taste of Balzac was of a different description; he composed familiar letters in a fustian style. A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 10 (of 10) From "The Works of Voltaire - A Contemporary Version" 2011-03-31T02:00:21.443Z This was obvious to the wise Boisrobert, of whom Balzac himself amusingly said that he was "circomspectissime" in the smallest actions of his life. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z Balzac paints with a big brush and puts on plenty of color. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z The nude bronze of French novelist Honore de Balzac was one of a series of four for a Balzac monument in Paris. Rodin statue stolen in Jerusalem 2011-03-10T15:26:24Z To believe the reviewer, French literature consists in the productions of this writer, the works of George Sand, Balzac, Fr�d�ric Souli�, and a few others of equal note and mark. Nuts and Nutcrackers 2011-03-08T03:00:45.687Z The style of the letters of Balzac would not be amiss for funeral orations; and we have some physical treatises in the style of the epic poem or the ode. A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 10 (of 10) From "The Works of Voltaire - A Contemporary Version" 2011-03-31T02:00:21.443Z But Balzac, whose character and temperament had many points of likeness to those of Pope, knew the value of friendship, though he was capable of amazing disloyalty under the pressure of vanity. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z The moral spectacle of such courageous industry in Balzac, the present writer admires, not the less, but the more, that the intellectual achievement resulting seems to him not commensurately great. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z There's a story of Balzac's called 'The Girl with the Golden Eyes.' The Doctor's Wife 2011-03-06T03:00:18.770Z There is what Balzac calls une perversit� divine in true affection, that teaches one to brave father and mother and brother, and this glorious sentiment is the cradle of true martyrdom. The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I 2011-03-03T03:00:56.130Z Certain defects are known to be transmissible by heredity from parent to child, until the crétin of Balzac’s Country Doctor is reproduced for centuries. The Super Race: An American Problem 2011-03-01T03:00:46.193Z But it was one thing to whistle to Balzac, and quite another for him to come at the call. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z Balzac’s long “toil and endeavor” was not leavened and lightened and turned into play by that “reflex of unimpeded energy” in him which a lofty philosopher has defined happiness to be. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z Giddy is sitting by me with her nose in the French Dictionary, working away at a novel of Balzac’s. The Letters of Anne Gilchrist and Walt Whitman 2011-02-26T03:00:49.377Z We were far more interested in Russian literature — Dostoyevsky, Gogol, Chekhov and Tolstoy — and European literature — Balzac, Hugo, Maupassant and Dickens — than in Arab literature. Op-Ed Contributor: Finally, Turkey Looks East 2011-02-23T05:48:02Z Balzac, again, may have created and exhibited as many types of mankind, but except in soul he is not a poet. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z In 1634 Balzac was thirty-seven years of age and by far the most prominent man of letters in France. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z His fires Balzac lighted with late hours, artificial illumination, strong stimulant drinks. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z As for the poems of Balzac they are too numerous to mention. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z How were Balzac's Works admired thirty Tears ago? An Essay on Criticism 2011-02-06T03:00:52.167Z Michelet’s juvenile histories were a production of the time, while poor, unhonoured, and then unsung, Balzac was grinding out his pittance—in after years to grow into a monumental literary legacy—in a garret. Dumas' Paris 2011-02-02T03:00:23.057Z Then in turn a Dickens or a Balzac is found out. Literature for Children 2011-02-02T03:00:21.560Z You can hear Balzac drive his Pegasus with shout and with lash. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z Balzac regarded his stories Louis Lambert, Séraphita and The Lily of the Valley as poems. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z Balzac spent all his Time in writing Letters, but could never hit the true Character. An Essay on Criticism 2011-02-06T03:00:52.167Z She notes that "Scott, Balzac and Thackeray received a legal training," just when she is going to add that "Robert Grant is also a lawyer." Education: How Old The New 2011-01-14T03:00:54.370Z Mrs Gabriel recalled this remark of Balzac's when Tempest, proving himself worthy of his name, swept her in wrath from his study. The Pagan's Cup 2011-01-06T03:00:42.697Z From books, on the other hand, Balzac purveyed a large share of his material. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z Balzac and Ibsen are poets and any definition of poetry that would exclude them as such is faulty. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z Neither Cowley nor Balzac are now any more mentioned in France or England. An Essay on Criticism 2011-02-06T03:00:52.167Z He went on to say that Balzac was overrated, that Byron was effaced, and that Hugo knew nothing about the stage. Sentimental Education Vol 1 2011-01-04T03:01:07.467Z Old houses stand hidden amidst the trees: that in which Balzac lived has been piously preserved. The Golden Triangle The Return of Ars?ne Lupin 2011-01-01T03:00:23.890Z In Balzac, it is the most natural thing in the world. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z Victor Hugo in his Shakespeare, when he calls the lists of poets, mentions prose writers like Diderot, Rousseau, Balzac, Chateaubriand, George Sand, Le Sage and Cervantes. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z And thus it is indelibly written in the face of Balzac, as Rodin has graven it, that the beauty of the creative gesture is wild, unwilling and painful. Paul Verlaine 2010-12-28T03:00:19.670Z At college we take oaths; we are going to set up a phalanx; we are going to imitate Balzac's Thirteen. Sentimental Education Vol 1 2011-01-04T03:01:07.467Z First of a series of Honore de Balzac's best French novels, $1.00. The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers. Series 2 2010-12-28T03:00:18.560Z We spoke of it not amiss, when we used Balzac’s half-cynical word and called it the comedy of man. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z One would wish to be informed where the story of ingratitude in Balzac's novel Père Goriot is any the less poetical than that of Shakespeare's verse play King Lear. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z He was a big, robust fellow filled with a demonic physical force like that which Balzac has breathed into his Vautrin types. Paul Verlaine 2010-12-28T03:00:19.670Z My dear fellow, the book of life, for people like ourselves, has the same title as one of Balzac's novels: Illusions Perdues. Problematic Characters A Novel 2010-12-26T03:00:15.780Z The fourth of the series of Balzac's best French novels, $1.00. The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers. Series 2 2010-12-28T03:00:18.560Z Around Victor Hugo, as the towering central figure among them all, were mustered, though some of them not to remain in this comradeship with him, Sainte-Beuve, Balzac, George Sand, De Musset. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z Balzac considered himself a poet and Ibsen in mentioning his prose dramas often used the word "poems." The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z The Cat and Battledore, and other Stories, translated from Balzac. British Goblins Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions 2010-12-20T17:11:57.810Z Balzac had it right: "Behind every great fortune, there lies a great crime." An economy kept afloat by mafia cash is not just the stuff of Le Carr? thrillers 2010-09-07T20:30:00Z The second of the series of Balzac's best French novels, $1.00. The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers. Series 2 2010-12-28T03:00:18.560Z Honor� de Balzac is one of the heroes of literature. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z There is little of value to be given us by the aesthetic treatises to appreciate a play of Shakespeare or Ibsen or a novel of Balzac or Dickens. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z The acclaimed British author of biographies of Hugo, Balzac and Rimbaud, he first experienced the city as a boy, when his parents treated him to a week’s holiday as a birthday present. Book Review - Parisians - An Adventure History of Paris - By Graham Robb 2010-04-30T16:42:00Z The publication of this last, in 1835, led to a correspondence between Balzac and the Countess Eveline de Hanska, a Polish lady whom, after about fifteen years, he visited and married. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis The third of the series of the best of Balzac's novels, $1.00. The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers. Series 2 2010-12-28T03:00:18.560Z The moral triumph of Balzac we have but half suggested. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z How many tropes do you find in the prose plays of Ibsen or the novels of Balzac? The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z Even the copy of Balzac, I see you have ordered from a circulating library. The Children of the World On the bookshelf of the Impossible, Mr. Stevenson's book may take its place beside Balzac's. Oscar Wilde: Art and Morality A Defence of "The Picture of Dorian Gray" In esoteric thought the perfected being must be an equal blending of the masculine and feminine, which Balzac has so gloriously interpreted in his “Seraphita.” The Arena Volume 18, No. 93, August, 1897 He wonders, therefore, and helplessly wonders, that Balzac should be esteemed, as he is, and that by some good judges, one of the greatest writers in the world. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z Burns and Heine, Shelley and Byron, Goethe and Ibsen, Balzac and Tolstoy are primary poets, not only because they are personal but because they are intellectual. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z Balzac abhorred it, Hugo cannot endure it, Lamartine has a horror of it. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 The idea of the book may have been suggested by Balzac's "Peau de Chagrin," and it is none the worse for that. Oscar Wilde: Art and Morality A Defence of "The Picture of Dorian Gray" The Spectator: "His masters are Zola and Balzac, but there are few traces of the novice and none of the imitator." Life on the Stage What Balzac undertook was to write the whole “human tale of this wide world”—that is, to represent in fiction all the manifold phases and aspects of human life and character. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z There was hostility to the poetry in the novels of Balzac, Flaubert and Zola, because the public did not want to accept their artistic innovations, their frankness and their views. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z The book is a great book, in just the sense in which the work of Darwin, Zola, or Balzac is great. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II Balzac wrote the "Peau de Chagrin," and probably this tale is as good a one as was ever written of that kind. Oscar Wilde: Art and Morality A Defence of "The Picture of Dorian Gray" Balzac!” he said to me once, “oh, that was the man the French Bourgeoisie read so much a few years ago.” The Trembling of the Veil In reading Balzac, you breathe for the most part an atmosphere of the not merely common, but—vulgar. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z The moralist and aesthete joined forces in attacking Balzac and Stendhal when these novelists gave us unpopular ideas emotionally expressed. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z In addition to his romances, Balzac wrote some theatrical pieces, and for a while edited and contributed a good deal to the Revue Parisienne. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. Turning with regret from this shelf, I came next upon a fine collection of French works, beginning with a complete edition of Balzac, which had evidently been read with care. Stevensoniana Being a Reprint of Various Literary and Pictorial Miscellany Associated with Robert Louis Stevenson, the Man and His Work It is the pithy way in which they are expressed by such men as La Rochefoucauld, La Bruyère, and Balzac that made the reputation of these great writers. Rambles in Womanland Realism was Balzac’s aim, and realism was the rock on which Balzac suffered double shipwreck. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z Ibsen and Balzac are poets and yet they are far away from dancing, singing or music. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z Since the revolution Balzac published nothing, but was engaged in visiting the battle-fields of Germany and Russia, and in piling up materials for a series of volumes, to be entitled Scenes de la Vie Militaire. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. I had read all Victor Hugo’s romances and a couple of Balzac’s and was in no mind to like her. Reveries over Childhood and Youth Thackeray and Balzac, two observers of mankind of marvellous ability, said the same. Rambles in Womanland George Sand and Balzac are often set in antithesis to each other as respectively idealistic and realistic writers. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z The novels of Thackeray and Balzac are poetry in parts and the emotional influence in reading them is the same as in seeing a tragic verse-play acted. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z You may give her to read and study all the works of Balzac, of Alexandre Dumas the younger, and of all the greatest dissectors of the human heart; she will learn nothing. Her Royal Highness Woman I remembered that my father had told me that Balzac had once desired to take opium for the experience sake, but would not because he dreaded the surrender of his will. Reveries over Childhood and Youth Balzac could write only on condition he was dressed as a monk, had the shutters of the room closed, and the lamps lighted. Rambles in Womanland I shall just write a few lines to the Favancourts, with the volume of Balzac—happily I know no one else here—and then for the road! Diary And Notes Of Horace Templeton, Esq. Volume I (of II) Another, perhaps, might have beguiled the tedium with drink, or cultivated what Balzac has called the gastronomy of the eye, and which consists in idling in the streets. The Truth About Tristrem Varick A Novel Remind him that Balzac said that a man must be a philosopher or a fool who enters his wife's dressing-room. Her Royal Highness Woman As I grew older, he would tell me plots of Balzac’s novels, using incident or character as an illustration for some profound criticism of life. Reveries over Childhood and Youth Could such a genius as Balzac be accused of plagiarism because he expressed a thought practically in the very words of La Bruyère? Rambles in Womanland Balzac, whose importance in the history of prose style has been pointed out, was one of its earliest members. A Short History of French Literature It may come at first sight, in which event, if it be enduring, it is, as Balzac has put it, a resultant of that prescience which is known as second sight. The Truth About Tristrem Varick A Novel The modern school of Russian romance writers is not formed upon the vicious French standard, but rather upon the best English; not upon that of Balzac and Dumas, but upon Thackeray and George Eliot. Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia On the contrary, it clearly shows the trace of the robust modern style that has prevailed in France from Balzac to Zola. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 I would as soon charge Balzac with plagiarism as I would accuse a Vanderbilt or a Carnegie of trying to cheat a street-car conductor out of a penny fare. Rambles in Womanland Honoré de Balzac was born at Tours, on the 20th of May, 1799. A Short History of French Literature Then, as the waiter retired, he said: "Why not get him to come as Balzac?" Carnival “What so interests you, ma sœur?—the last novel by Balzac, no doubt?” Harper's New Monthly Magazine, February, 1852 Nobody had ever heard her sing, and yet in her singing, and in her chatter with her maid, Balzac tells us, was her true self. Ideas of Good and Evil Two hundred years later Balzac wrote: 'There are women who crave for liberty in order to make bad use of it.' Rambles in Womanland The last is the best piece of mere writing that Balzac has produced. A Short History of French Literature She adores La Fontaine, reads Balzac with a kind of artist scowl, and will not let Greek alone. International Short Stories American At a time when all Paris was laughing at Rodin's Balzac, there was a place for a sculptor like Antony, for the idealist and dreamer, gifted with a strong and faultless technique. Fairfax and His Pride In each of these small court circles he will find stories of sin, passion, and remorse, beside which the tales of a D'Annunzio, a Balzac, or a Zola seem mere inchoate records of childish bravado. Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) In addition to the old Russian masters Gogol and Pushkin, Balzac and George Sand supplied him with literary ideals. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" Balzac is in a way the greatest of French novelists, because he is the most entirely singular and original. A Short History of French Literature Those stories of Balzac's, those wonderful pictures of passionate life, acquired an immense hold upon me, from the very character of my own existence. That Boy Of Norcott's After my brother's return from Europe, I read such works of George Sand and Balzac as he would allow me to choose from his library. Reminiscences, 1819-1899 Balzac has treated the theme, but with reserve and delicacy. A Problem in Modern Ethics being an inquiry into the phenomenon of sexual inversion, addressed especially to Medical Psychologists and Jurists We are held in contempt, but such was the fate of every prophet; they make us into mummers and we learn mummery, but Balzac and Turgenev rise from their own dust. A Novelist on Novels This Balzac could not endure, and he very shortly betook himself to literature, suffering very considerable hardships. A Short History of French Literature She reads out Balzac for me, and I don't know when I had such a jolly life. That Boy Of Norcott's He makes his chapter interesting and ingenious by quotations from, or references to, the works of Scott, Thackeray, Tennyson, Goethe, Balzac, Ponsard, and Edmond About. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 95, September 1865 Balzac wrote abundantly to prove the influence that names have on their possessors. Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern If the future is to give us a Balzac or a Fielding he will not write like a Balzac or a Fielding: he will use a new style. A Novelist on Novels With Balzac's name is inseparably connected, if only from the striking contrast between them, that of George Sand. A Short History of French Literature The other paper of which we desire to speak in this connection, is one treating of the French novelists prominent at the time, and in particular of Balzac, Eug�ne Sue, and De Vigny. Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli) I have inserted them to make good my statement that Balzac was neither a gambler, a drunkard, nor an idler. An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections Not only did Balzac preach this austere doctrine, but he practised it as nearly as he could without ceasing altogether to be a man and a Frenchman. Methods of Authors That dramatic author who shall know mankind like Balzac, and who shall know the theatre like Scribe, will be the greatest dramatic author that has ever existed. Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 As the chief characteristics of Balzac are intense observation, concentrated thought, and the most obstinate and unwearying labour, so the chief characteristic of George Sand is easy improvisation. A Short History of French Literature Of the three here cited, Balzac alone remains a king among novelists; and Margaret's study of him imports as much to us to-day as it did to the world of her time. Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli) I did not want more than half a sheet, so imagine my surprise when Balzac named his conditions, viz., five thousand francs, something over six hundred francs a page of about six hundred words. An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections Now, coffee acts upon some temperaments as laudanum acts upon others, and many of the manners and customs of Balzac were those of a confirmed opium-eater. Methods of Authors But Balzac did him justice; Rotrou, as we have seen, never failed in generous appreciation; Moli�re in conversation and in print recognized him as his own master and the foremost of dramatists. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" The greatest masters of drama have already been mentioned among the eight typical names of 1830, even Balzac having attempted it, though without much success. A Short History of French Literature De Balzac, Eug�ne Sue, Dumas p�re, and B�ranger then lived and moved among admiring friends. Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli) Kugelmann began to yell; I simply smiled; seeing which, Balzac said, as soberly as possible, 'You'll admit that, in order to depict a landscape faithfully, one should study its every detail. An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections Nothing was wanting in that palatial residence, for every fancy of Balzac had been gratified. Methods of Authors And Morny’s vaulted tomb was close at hand, and Balzac smiled his animal cynicism from his bust. Songs of the Army of the Night Balzac was a gentleman of rank and fortune in the province of Angoumois, where he was born towards the end of the sixteenth century, and where he died in 1655. A Short History of French Literature Balzac is the heartless surgeon, probing the wounds and describing the delirium of suffering men for the amusement of his students. Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli) When Balzac was not being harassed by the officials of the Tribunal de Commerce, he had to dodge the authorities of the National Guards, who generally had a warrant against him for neglect of duty. An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections Like Voltaire, Balzac had a passion for coffee, more to keep him awake than as a stimulant. Methods of Authors Balzac drank great quantities of coffee whilst he wrote; and this, it is believed, brought on the terrible nervous disease that accelerated his end. The Intellectual Life Nor was it long before what was faulty in Balzac's style was corrected by the example of very different writers. A Short History of French Literature Contrasting Eug�ne Sue with Balzac, she finds in the first an equal power of observation, disturbed by a more variable temperament, and enhanced by "the heart and faith that Balzac lacks." Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli) The sergeant-major of Balzac's company had undoubtedly a grudge against him. An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections He and Balzac are at precisely opposite pales in their method of working. Methods of Authors Ingres used to counsel his pupils to sketch always, to sketch upon and within the first sketch till the picture came right in the end; and this was strictly Balzac’s method in literature. The Intellectual Life Of this school George Sand and Balzac are the masters, though much importance must also be assigned to Stendhal. A Short History of French Literature Balzac's "Human Comedy," which Zola compared to a palace reared by giants, is so often praised as to make one sometimes lose sight of Balzac's supreme art in the composition of short stories. The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 5 July 1906 Its recuperative qualities were vouched for by such men as Alfred de Musset, Balzac, and Alexandre Dumas. An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections Like Balzac, Byron avoided meat and wine, and so gave less natural brain-food room for active play. Methods of Authors Many millions of men had essayed this task before Balzac's time and had failed, as millions of other men have been failing ever since. The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 4 June 1906 The naturalists affect to derive from Stendhal, through Balzac and Flaubert. A Short History of French Literature Chiefly, of course, they are novelists, Eliot, Balzac, Hardy, Scott, and an infinity of lesser lights. The Technique of Fiction Writing Though literary remuneration was not in those days what it became later on, it was sufficiently large to make it difficult to explain the chronic impecuniosity of Balzac, though not that of Dumas. An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections Kant, like Balzac, gave a daily dinner-party; but when his guests were gone he took a walk in the country instead of seeking broken slumbers in a state of hunger. Methods of Authors As might have been expected of such a profound student of human nature, Balzac on various occasions attempted to analyze the character of woman. The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 4 June 1906 Balzac's works are almost entirely of the essay character, though they are sufficiently diverse, and for the most part rather artificial in form. A Short History of French Literature Examples are Defoe's work—often cited—such as "Robinson Crusoe" or "A Journal of the Plague Year," or Balzac's "Peau de Chagrin." The Technique of Fiction Writing I asked M�ry, when he had told us of his fourth meeting with Balzac on that very morning. An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections Balzac would write the draft of a whole novel at a sitting, and then develop it on the margins of proofs, revises, and re-revises. Methods of Authors But it is generally believed that Balzac came nearer the truth in his estimate of woman than any other novelist has done. The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 4 June 1906 Balzac, equalling the others in the range of his field, added the special example of a minute psychological analysis, and of the most untiring labour. A Short History of French Literature Yet take such a touch as Balzac's in stating that a character had a face like a glass of dirty water. The Technique of Fiction Writing He happened to be a perfumer, and ever since the publication and success of "C�sar Birotteau" the Paris perfumers bore Balzac no goodwill. An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections There was no dessert—Balzac's principal meal—nor coffee. Methods of Authors "Not exactly," said the other, smiling, "but I have had a charming evening; one of those fleeting moments of that 'vie de famille' Balzac tells us are worth all our wild and youthful excesses." A Rent In A Cloud Charles de Bernard was at one time Balzac's secretary, but his fashion of work is entirely different from that of his employer. A Short History of French Literature Balzac’s studies had led him over a wide range of thought and speculation, and his shadowing forth of physiological truth in this strange story may have been intentional. The Voice of Science in Nineteenth-Century Literature Representative Prose and Verse The real fact is this: Gavarni, like Balzac, invented many names, suggested in many instances by those of their friends and acquaintances, or sometimes merely altered from those they had seen on signboards. An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections It will be remembered that Balzac recommended the night for the artist's work, the day for the author's drudgery. Methods of Authors He could imagine a great artist like Daudet or Balzac making a great story out of it. The "Genius" But done as it was, and when it was, Balzac's work was really of importance and advantage to his countrymen. A Short History of French Literature But, happily, the protoplasmic peau de chagrin differs from Balzac’s in its capacity of being repaired, and brought back to its full size, after every exertion. The Voice of Science in Nineteenth-Century Literature Representative Prose and Verse Delaroche remembered that he had met him on the staircase, but neither knew who he was, albeit that Balzac's fame was not altogether unknown to them. An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections O—I remember the Gautier, which was an excellent performance; and the Balzac, which was good; and the Daudet, over which I licked my chops; but the R. L. S. is better yet. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 24 (of 25) While this is not meant to be a nursery-book, it has been made virginibus puerisque, and for this reason, selections from Boccaccio, Rabelais and Balzac could not find their way into these pages. Devil Stories An Anthology It was these examples of deliberate composition which Balzac furnished, and which, in a lighter and more graceful fashion, and to a more limited circle, were also given by the letters of the poet Voiture. A Short History of French Literature The Spectator: “His masters are Zola and Balzac, but there are few traces of the novice and none of the imitator.” A Prince of Good Fellows He is ten times worse in that respect than Balzac, with this additional point in the latter's favour—that he never whines to the outside world about his impecuniosity. An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections To believe the reviewer, French literature consists in the productions of this writer, the works of George Sand, Balzac, Frédéric Soulié, and a few others of equal note and mark. Nuts and Nutcrackers Note: This work is dedicated to Dagny, who, 10 years ago, was part of the "Balzac Team" which produced 100 eBooks for Project Gutenberg. The Works Of Balzac A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions Balzac, as is natural in the first attempts at a polished prose style, has the drawback of being somewhat rhetorical and occasionally ponderous. A Short History of French Literature Balzac points to that great female artist and republican, the Duchess of San-Severins, in Stendhal's "La Chartreuse de Parme," as a portrait of the princess. Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century They positively looked like some of those wardrobe-dealers so admirably described by Balzac. An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections I happened to be reading Balzac last night, that is all. Aliens |
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