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...
JEAN RIMBACH, Staff Writer The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 06-26-1995 A LIFE OF FALSE STARTS -- DYFS FAILS A PARENTHOOD TEST ONE GIRL'S STRAINED PATH TO ADULTHOOD By JEAN RIMBACH, Staff Writer Date: 06-26-1995, Monday Section: NEWS Edition: All Editions -- 3 Star, 2...
TYMIENIECKA, Anna-Teresa, ed. Life. Phenomenology of Life as the Starting Point of Philosophy. Analecta Husserliana, vol. 50. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1997. xiii + 356 pp. Cloth, $156.00--This collection of conference papers is the third in a series of related volumes published under the auspices of...