Balzac
(1799-1850) French novelist; author of The Human Comedy; he portrays the complexity of 19th century French society in such works as Old Goriot.
(1799-1850)
French writer. He was one of the major novelists of the 19th century. His first success was Les Chouans/The Chouans, inspired by Walter Scott. This was the beginning of the long series of novels La Comédie humaine/The Human Comedy which includes Eugénie Grandet 1833, Le Père Goriot 1834, and Cousine Bette 1846. He also wrote the Rabelaisian Contes drolatiques/Ribald Tales 1833.
Born in Tours, Balzac studied law and worked as a notarys clerk in Paris before turning to literature. His first attempts included tragedies such as Cromwell and novels published under a pseudonym with no great success. A venture in printing and publishing 182528 involved him in a lifelong web of debt. His patroness, Madame de Berny, figures in Le Lys dans la vallée/The Lily in the Valley 1836. Balzac intended his major work La Comédie humaine/The Human Comedy to comprise 143 volumes, depicting every aspect of society in 19th-century France, of which he completed 80. Titles and characters include Cousin Pons 1847; and the doctor of Le Médicin de la campagne/The Country Doctor 1833, the great businessman of La Maison de Nucingen/The House of Nucingen 1838, and the cleric of Le Curé de village/The Village Parson 1839. Balzac corresponded constantly with the Polish countess Evelina Hanska after meeting her 1833, and they married four months before his death in Paris. He was buried in Père Lachaise cemetery.
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