Balzac wrote a monumental and magnificent work called The Human Comedy. "The Human Comedy" is the general title under which Honoré de Balzac grouped all of his literary works from their reissue which, begun in 1842, continued until 1848. That is a set of more than 90 works - novels , short stories, tales and essays - of realistic, romantic, or philosophical genres, and whose writing spans from 1829 to 1850.
For Balzac, the system of Society is comparable to that of Nature and can be analyzed just as well. This is the objective of "The Human Comedy", which the writer proposes to achieve thanks to a construction in three parts: "The Studies of manners", the most important, "The Philosophical Studies" and The Analytical Studies " .
“Society had to carry with it the reason for its movement. » “Les Études de meurs” is divided into six sets of novels, qualified as “scenes”: scenes from private life, from the provinces, Paris, politics, the military and the countryside. "Philosophical Studies" seek, for their part, to identify the causes of the vagaries of social life, and in particular the universal energy which was expressed in man through thought. According to Balzac, the exercise of thought exhausts the vital reserves of each man and to live one's passions inevitably leads to death: this is the fate of Raphaël in "La Peau de chagrin", that of Father Grandet, a type of provincial miser, like that of Frenhofer, the painter of the "Unknown Masterpiece". Finally, “Analytical Studies” develops the theoretical principles that govern social life.
I advise you to start by reading Lost Illusions, Le Père Goriot, and Colonel Chabert.
I've read le Père Goriot some years ago, but nowadays I'm jammed into Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu. Maybe once I'll have managed to finish that - I've started it in 2016 and I'm still stuck at book no. four, Sodome et Gomorrhe - I'll get to Balzac.
Still better than being named Dick Trickle though, I suppose.
Cubus | 149 opinions shared on Entertainment & Arts topic.
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I've read le Pere Goriot. It's a set text in Poland.
I remember it showed me how demoralised big cities are.
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Dude, I've heard of him. I've laughed at his name more times than I care to remember. I mean, come on. Ball-Sack. How can anyone fail to be amused by THAT?
Simples...
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my advice when u give someone a bj.. u gotta honore de balzac
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