Honoré de Balzac
French novelist and playwright
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Why Is Honoré de Balzac Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Honoré de Balzac 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, Marcel Proust, Gustave Flaubert, and Henry James, and filmmakers François Truffaut and Jacques Rivette. Many of Balzac's works have been made into films and continue to inspire other writers. James called him "really the father of us all."
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What Are Honoré de Balzac's Academic Contributions?
Honoré de Balzac has made the following academic contributions:
- The Firm of Nucingen
- The Country Doctor
- The Conscript
- La Bourse
- Cousin Bette
- Colonel Chabert
- Z. Marcas
- Wann-Chlore
- Ursule Mirouët
- Un prince de la bohème
- Un ménage de garçon
- Une fille d'Ève
- Une double famille
- Un drame au bord de la mer
- Un début dans la vie
- Traité des excitants modernes
- Tolldreiste Geschichten
- Théorie de la démarche
- The Girl with the Golden Eyes
- Sur Catherine de Médicis
- Sarrasine
- Pierrette
- Physiology of Marriage
- Pathologie de la vie sociale
- Modeste Mignon
- Mémoires de deux jeunes mariées
- Massimilla Doni
- Louis Lambert
- Le Vicaire des Ardennes
- Les Proscrits
- Les Petits Bourgeois
- Les Marana
- Les Employés ou la Femme supérieure
- Les Deux Poètes
- Les Chouans
- L'Envers de l'histoire contemporaine
- Le Lys dans la vallée
- Le Curé de village
- Le Cousin Pons
- Le Contrat de mariage
- Le Cabinet des Antiques
- Le Bal de Sceaux
- La Vieille Fille
- L'Auberge rouge
- La Rabouilleuse
- La Peau de chagrin
- La Paix du ménage
- L'Anonyme, ou, Ni père ni mère
- La Muse du département
- La Maison du Chat-qui-pelote
- La Maison du chat-qui-pelote
- La Grande Bretèche
- La Femme abandonnée
- La Fausse Maîtresse
- La Famille Beauvisage
- Illusions perdues
- Honorine
- Gobseck
- Gambara
- Facino Cane
- Eve and David
- Eugénie Grandet
- El Verdugo
- Clotilde de Lusignan
- Béatrix
- A Woman of Thirty
- A Passion in the Desert
- Annette et le Criminel
- An Episode Under the Terror
- Albert Savarus
- Adieu
