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...
Ilan Stavans Forward 01-28-1994 Celibate in Johannesburg. A Jewish-South African poet and novelist, Lionel Abrahams faced life-threatening adversity long before he was attacked by the Apartheid government for championing the poetry of black South Africans such as Oswald Mtshali and Mongane Wally Serote....
Byline: ANDREA THOMPSON ACCORDING to a recent report by Relate - the UK's leading relationship counselling service - a growing number of couples are living in celibate marriages. Here, author and broadcaster Sarah Tucker, 39, who lives with her five-year-old son in a...
