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...
Les Chouans (English: The Chouans) is an 1829 novel by French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) and included in the Scènes de la vie militaire section of his novel sequence La Comédie humaine. Set in the French region of...
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Canadian Journal of Latin American & Caribbean Studies
Ernesto Cardenal Les îles étranges Paris : L'Harmattan, 2006, 469 pp. Miriam Lassonde, Université Laval Lorsque les sandinistes prennent le pouvoir au Nicaragua en 1979, le gouvernement qu'ils instaurent se caractérise notamment du fait qu'il intègre des prêtres catholiques, dont le père...
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Les Climats 01/01/2007: 1,322 words, approx. 4 pages
La tête dans le tiroir Dans Les Climats, Nuri Bilge Ceylan met en oeuvre une anecdote plus prudente que dans ses oeuvres précédentes : un couple se sépare et ne parvient pas à se réconcilier parce que les souhaits de l'un ne coïncident...
