Balzac

[ bawl-zak, bal-; French bal-zak ]

noun

1. Ho·no·ré de [on-, uh, -, rey, d, uh, aw-naw-, rey, d, uh], 1799–1850, French novelist.

Balzac

/ ˈbælzæk; balzak /

noun

1. BalzacHonoré de17991850MFrenchWRITING: novelist Honoré de (ɔnɔre də). 1799–1850, French novelist: author of a collection of novels under the general title La Comédie humaine , including Eugénie Grandet (1833), Le Père Goriot (1834), and La Cousine Bette (1846)

Example Sentences

She saw herself as part of a larger tradition that includes Honore de Balzac, Leo Tolstoy, Marcel Proust, and Thomas Mann.

From The Daily Beast

Okay, not everything in this book meets the standards of realism as practiced by Balzac and Zola.

From The Daily Beast

So any list of the “essential” Balzac inevitably omits a handful of great works.

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As I said, Balzac wrote about an epoch that is curiously like our own.

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Balzac was the great novelist of money, social climbing, and power.

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Balzac seems to have observed the society of his day less than he contributed to form a new one.

From Project Gutenberg

I think I can see two reasons for this particular strength of Balzac's genius.

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With such a faculty Balzac could not be, like Edgar Poe, merely a narrator of nightmares.

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Ever since their grandfather, the soldier Balzac, married a viscontessa at Milan that family hold their heads too high.

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Sainte-Beuve and Balzac were two of the earliest of her literary friends, among whom she numbered also Heine.

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