Droll Stories

by Honorï de Balzac

Overview

Reproduction of the original: Droll Stories by Honore de Balzac

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781022917132
Publisher:	Anson Street Press
Publication date:	03/28/2025
Pages:	380
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.78(d)

About the Author

Honoré de Balzac (1799 - 1850) was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie Humaine, which presents a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his magnum opus. Owing to his keen observation of detail and unfiltered representation of society, Balzac is regarded as one of the founders of realism in European literature. He is renowned for his multi-faceted characters; even his lesser characters are complex, morally ambiguous and fully human. Inanimate objects are imbued with character as well; the city of Paris, a backdrop for much of his writing, takes on many human qualities. His writing influenced many famous writers, including the novelists Émile Zola, Charles Dickens, Gustave Flaubert, Jack Kerouac, and Henry James, filmmakers Akira Kurosawa and Eric Rohmer as well as important philosophers such as Friedrich Engels. Many of Balzac's works have been made into films and they continue to inspire other writers.

Editorial Reviews

"One is nearer to understanding the great writers of the ancient world if one understands them as Balzac did." —Marcel Proust

"[Balzac] is himself a figure more extraordinary than any he drew." —Henry James

“One of the first among the greatest, one of the highest among the best…He ransacked vice, he dissected passion.”
—Victor Hugo

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