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...
A pity forever! That would have become a huge success," sighed Max Ophuls late in 1950 to the Frankfurter Rundschau's Dieter Fritko about the demise of producer Walter Wanger's Greta Garbo project, a film based on Balzac's La Duchesse de Langeais. A year earlier,...
Byline: Colin Covert; Staff Writer THE DUCHESS OF LANGEAIS 2 1/2 out of four stars Theater: Lagoon. A stately costume drama of wrenching passions expressed in courtly phrases. Brooding French general (Guillaume Depardieu, son of Gerard) obtains an audience with a...
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