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| The whole of France is crammed into his pages, and electrified there into intense vitality. |
| —On Balzac |
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| Honoré de Balzac |
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| 1799–1850, French novelist, b. Tours. Balzac ranks among the great masters of the novel.… Half starving in a Paris garret, Balzac began writing sensational novels to order, publishing them under a pseudonym. Throughout his life he worked with feverish activity, sleeping a few hours in the evening and writing from midnight until noon or afternoon of the next day.… Outweighing Balzac’s faults—his lack of literary style, his moralizing, his tendency toward melodrama—are his originality, his great powers of observation, and his vivid imagination.—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright © 2002 Columbia University Press. (See also: Biographical Note from Harvard Classics.) |
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Pronunciation:  bôl´z k´´, bl´-, bäl-zäk´ from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. |
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From the Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction, Vol. XIII, Part 1.
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- Balzac, Honoré de, 5385 to 5498
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