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Honoré de Balzac

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Honoré de Balzac


Born
in Tours, France
May 20, 1799

Died
August 18, 1850

Genre

Influences


French writer Honoré de Balzac (born Honoré Balzac), a founder of the realist school of fiction, portrayed the panorama of society in a body of works, known collectively as La comédie humaine .

Honoré de Balzac authored 19th-century novels and plays. After the fall of Napoléon in 1815, his magnum opus, a sequence of almost a hundred novels and plays, entitled, presents life in the years.

Due to keen observation of fine detail and unfiltered representation, European literature regards Balzac. He features renowned multifaceted, even complex, morally ambiguous, full lesser characters. Character well imbues inanimate objects; the city of Paris, a backdrop, takes on many qualities. He influenced many famous authors, including the novelists Mar
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“Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.”
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“Reading brings us unknown friends”
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Polls

March 2020 Old School Poll

 
  96 votes, 28.1%

Sanditon by Jane Austen 1825, 112 pages
 
  72 votes, 21.1%

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  50 votes, 14.6%

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  37 votes, 10.8%

 
  35 votes, 10.2%

 
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