Name: La Com (in French)
SKU: 57958748
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Author: Honoré De Balzac

Type

Physical Book

Author

Honoré De Balzac

Publisher

Createspace

Language

French

Pages

466

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

27.9x21.6x2.4 cm

Weight

1.07 kg.

ISBN13

9781722759834

Synopsis "La Com (in French)"

Honoré de Balzac, né Honoré Balzac à Tours le 20 mai 1799 (1er prairial an VII du calendrier républicain), et mort à Paris le 18 août 1850 (à 51 ans), est un écrivain français. Romancier, dramaturge, critique littéraire, critique d'art, essayiste, journaliste et imprimeur, il a laissé l'une des plus imposantes oeuvres romanesques de la littérature française, avec 96 romans et nouvelles parus de 1829 à 1850, réunis sous le titre La Comédie humaine, auxquels s'ajoutent quelque vingt-cinq oeuvres ébauchées et huit romans de jeunesse. Il est un des maîtres du roman français, dont il a abordé plusieurs genres: le roman historique et politique, avec Les Chouans, le roman philosophique avec Le Chef-d'oeuvre inconnu, le roman fantastique avec La Peau de chagrin ou encore le roman poétique avec Le Lys dans la vallée. Mais ses romans réalistes et psychologiques les plus célèbres, tels Le Père Goriot ou Eugénie Grandet, lui ont valu une qualification réductrice d' auteur réaliste, qui ignore son aspect visionnaire et la puissance de son imagination créatrice.

Honoré De Balzac

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Honoré de Balzac (1799-1851), novelist, playwright, literary and art critic, essayist, journalist, and French printer, is considered one of the great writers of realism. Born in Tours, in 1814 he moved to Paris, where he studied law and began working in a law firm, but his love for literature drove him to abandon his career and dedicate himself to writing. He undertook several businesses, which ended in failure and left him in debt. With The Last Chouan (1829), he achieved great success. From then on, he began a feverish activity, writing, among others, The Physiology of Marriage (1829) and The Wild Ass's Skin (1831), with which he began to consolidate his prestige. In 1834, Balzac, a tireless worker, conceived the idea of making an exhaustive portrait of French society of his time by having the same characters appear in different stories, which began to give his work a unitary sense under the title of The Human Comedy, to which belong titles such as Eugénie Grandet (1833), Father Goriot (1835), Splendors and Miseries of Courtesans (1838-1847) or Cousin Bette (1846), although of the 137 novels that were to make it up, fifty remained incomplete. An extraordinary writer, capable of deploying in his works sublime reflections and ideas, creating an interesting story with strong social criticism through exquisite prose of great poetic level and philosophical depth, Balzac is considered the founder of the modern novel.

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