Honore
de Balzac (1799 - 1850),
French novelist. In total, his literary
output amounted to about 100 novels, six plays, many pamphlets and a huge amount of correspondence. The romantic and the realistic coexisted in both Balzac's
character and his writings. Considered to be the
founder of the realistic
school, he used
vast reams of meticulous detail and faithfully depicted ordinary and undistinguished lives.
Honor?
de Balzac (1799-1850), famous
French writer and novelist of the 1800s who is considered one of the greatest fiction writers of all
time. He is best known for his mammoth
work, The Human Comedy, a
series of nearly one-hundred novels and
short stories, begun in 1834, in which he attempted to
create an extensive view of the
factors governing
French life from the
time of the
French Revolution in the
late 1700s to his own
day. His realistic stories
tried to depict every aspect and phase of
French society, including
private life, military
life, political
life and country
life. In total The Human Comedy contained more than 2,400 characters, the most important of which appeared throughout the
work.