His willful nature caused trouble throughout his life, and frustrated his ambitions to succeed in the world of business.
Many of Balzac's works have been made into films, and they continue to inspire other writers.Īn enthusiastic reader and independent thinker as a child, Balzac had trouble adapting himself to the teaching style of his grammar school. His writing influenced many famous authors, including the novelists Marcel Proust, Émile Zola, Charles Dickens, Gustave Flaubert, Henry James and Jack Kerouac, as well as important philosophers such as Friedrich Engels. Inanimate objects are imbued with character as well the city of Paris, a backdrop for much of his writing, takes on many human qualities. He is renowned for his multi-faceted characters even his lesser characters are complex, morally ambiguous and fully human. His magnum opus was a sequence of almost 100 novels and plays collectively entitled La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the fall of Napoléon Bonaparte in 1815.ĭue to his keen observation of fine detail and unfiltered representation of society, Balzac is regarded as one of the founders of realism in European literature. Honoré de Balzac was a nineteenth-century French novelist and playwright.
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