Brauchen Sie Hilfe oder weitere Informationen? Quoted in Robb, 44. Il est l’auteur de La Comédie humaine , une œuvre immense qui comprend plus de 2000 personnages dans 91 ouvrages, dans laquelle il peint la société de son époque. La Mort est mon métier, } Si c'est un homme, [102] He also used a realist technique which French novelist Marcel Proust later termed "retrospective illumination", whereby a character's past is revealed long after she or he first appears. [41] His first enterprise was in publishing which turned out cheap one-volume editions of French classics including the works of Molière. He tried to enforce strict impartiality in its pages and a reasoned assessment of various ideologies. Illusions Perdues extends to a thousand pages after starting inauspiciously in a small-town print shop, whereas La Fille aux yeux d'or (The Girl with the Golden Eyes, 1835) opens with a broad panorama of Paris but becomes a closely plotted novella of only fifty pages. Intricate details about locations sometimes stretch for fifteen or twenty pages. William Saroyan wrote a short story about Balzac in his 1971 book, Letters from 74 rue Taitbout or Don't Go But If You Must Say Hello To Everybody. return false; 116 membres ont répondu Participez au sondage ! [48] The timing of the decision was also significant; as Robb explained: "The disappearance of the father coincides with the adoption of the nobiliary particle. Economisez avec notre option de livraison gratuite. Ed. The Comédie Humaine remained unfinished at the time of his death—Balzac had plans to include numerous other books, most of which he never started. Les Aventures d'Alice au pays des merveilles. [57], In 1836 Balzac took the helm of the Chronique de Paris, a weekly magazine of society and politics. openNewWindow(link_URL, width, height, scrollbars, 'no'); [22] When he returned home, his grandmother said: "Voilà donc comme le collège nous renvoie les jolis que nous lui envoyons!" Nevertheless, his keen insight regarding working-class conditions earned him the esteem of many socialists including Marxists. [7] His father, born Bernard-François Balssa,[8] was one of eleven children from an artisan family in Tarn, a region in the south of France. In: This page was last edited on 25 September 2020, at 08:10. Balzac is mentioned to humorous effect in Meredith Willson's musical The Music Man. Marx's Das Kapital also makes some references to the works of Balzac, and Trotsky famously read Balzac in the middle of meetings of the Central Committee, much to the consternation of his colleagues and comrades. Inventeur du récit moderne, il aborde plusieurs genres dans le cours de sa carrière littéraire et influencera des auteurs réputés dont Emile Zola, le célèbre auteur de Au Bonheur des Dames ou Gustave Flaubert, connu pour L'éducation sentimentale.