Had Balzac been a less masterful novelist, the disreputably profligate fraud in him might have overwhelmed his artistry. Still, the other Balzac, the artist, is tainted by his well-earned reputation for what has been called artistic license or dishonesty...
The French novelist Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) was the first writer to use fiction to convey the total social scene prevailing within one country at a particular period in its history. Commonly regarded as the founder of social realism, he also...
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 10-27-2007 Eve Curie Labouisse, 102; Nobel laureates' daughter -- A journalist, she wrote biography of mother THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Date: 10-27-2007, Saturday Section: NEWS Edtion: All Editions Biographical: EVE CURIE LABOUISSE NEW YORK —...
Eve's Daughter/Modern Woman: A Mural by Mary Cassatt Sally Webster. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2004. In her introduction to this extremely wellwritten book, the author outlines the reason for the title and her frame of reference very clearly: "For Cassatt...
