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| 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... summary from source:
 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... 
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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[1]) (May 20, 1799 – August 18, 1850) was a nineteenth-century French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a...
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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