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Biography

Name: Honoré de Balzac
Birth Date: May 20, 1799
Death Date: August 19, 1850
Place of Birth: Tours, France
Place of Death: Paris, France
Nationality: French
Gender: Male
Occupations: novelist

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Biography of Honore de Balzac
16,702 words, approx. 56 pages
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...
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Biography of Honoré de Balzac
1,709 words, approx. 6 pages
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...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Honoré de Balzac Information
6,996 words, approx. 23 pages
Honoré de Balzac (pronounced /ˌɒnəˈreɪ/ or /ˈɒnəreɪ də ˈbɔlzæk/ in English; IPA: [ɔnɔʁe də balˈzak] in French<sup id="cite_ref-0" class="reference">[1]</sup>) (May 20, 1799 – August 18, 1850) was a nineteenth-century French...


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Allen Thiher
17,776 words, approx. 59 pages
In the following essay, Thiher claims that Balzac transformed the novel from philosophical allegory to a discussion about the nature of knowledge, and explores the author's attempt to offer a reality in his novel that would compete with the supposed total truths posited by scientific discourse.
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Critical Essay by Cathy Caruth
11,430 words, approx. 38 pages
In the following essay, Caruth maintains that in Le Colonel Chabert, a novel about a ghostly claim to property, Balzac illustrates how the law, functioning as historical memory, recognizes and yet fails to understand those traumatized by history.
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Critical Essay by Thomas E. Peterson
10,968 words, approx. 37 pages
In the following essay, Peterson investigates the scientific notion of proof in the artistic context of Balzac's Le chef-d'oeuvre inconnu.
 


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