Honoré de Balzac (/ ˈbæl.zæk / BAL-zak, [2] more commonly US: / ˈbɔːl. -/ BAWL-; [3][4][5] French: [ɔnɔʁe d (ə) balzak]; born Honoré Balzac; [1] 20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie humaine, described as a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his magnum opus. Owing to his keen observation of ...
Honoré de Balzac was a French literary artist who produced a vast number of novels and short stories collectively called La Comédie humaine (The Human Comedy). He helped to establish the traditional form of the novel and is generally considered to be one of the greatest novelists of all time.
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Honoré de Balzac ( – ) was a French novelist recognized as one of the founders of realism in European fiction. An immensely productive, if uneven writer, Balzac intended his massive (and ultimately incomplete) body of novels and stories, collectively entitled The Human Comedy (La Comédie humaine), to present a broad panorama of French society in the period of the ...
Honoré de Balzac Honoré de Balzac was a French novelist and playwright. He is best known for his series of novels and stories collectively titled 'La Comédie Humaine,' which presents a detailed and vivid panorama of French society in the first half of the nineteenth century.
Honore de Balzac was a French novelist. Famous for his Human Comedy epic series, he pioneered the use of realism in novels.
Honoré de Balzac’s life has often been told, but it’s less compelling than Balzac’s lives, the extraordinary, extravagant, profligate creation of the well over 2,000 fictional beings who people his…