How To Use Balzac In A Sentence
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Balzac expended a great deal of pains, and one of whom he seems to have "caressed," as the French say, with a curious admixture of dislike and admiration.
The Thirteen
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Zola borrowed more, but mainly the unwholesome parts, truncating these further to suit his theory of the novel as a slice of life seen through a temperament, and travestying in the Rougon-Macquart scheme, with its burden of heredity and physiological blemish, Balzac's cumbrous and plausible doctrine of the _Comedy_.
Balzac
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Is it Balzac the individual, furnished by his personal experience with a philosophy of Woman?
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The 'absolu' (do you remember Balzac's beautiful story?) is just you and 'no one else,' the other elements being mere uncertainties, shifting while one looks for them.
The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett
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He partly advanced himself and partly induced Balzac's parents to advance more, in order to start the young man as a printer, to which business Honore himself added that of typefounder.
The Human Comedy: Introductions and Appendix
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Balzack chews beef bones i barter from the butcher at the grocery store. i keep him supplied with fish and game and he keep me supplied with bones for him to chew.
Appetite for Destruction: When Good Dogs Chew
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A row of sculptures—from the tender, white marble "Alsatian Orphan" and patinated terra-cotta "Bust of a Woman" to the exuberant bronze "Head of Balzac"—lines the gallery's mantle.
A Close-Up of a Master
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Although printed in the little fifty-five-volume [160] edition which for so many years represented Balzac, they were excluded, as noted above, from the statelier "Définitive," and so may have once more "gone into abscondence.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
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Then there are always the enormous old classics that you haven't got around to reading and that are staring at you reproachfully from the shelf, like the rest of Dickens or the rest of Balzac.
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As the authors point out, Le Monde's pages have become France's contemporary Balzac, a feuilleton that readers can follow day by day.
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Balzac pumped him for information on organised crime and political espionage.
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I want to live to excess! cries Balzac's hero, Raphael de Valentin, as he clutches the magic shagreen, or ass's skin, that will prolong his life of dissipation and pleasure, according to the antiquary who gives it to him.
Decadent Writing Of the 19th Century
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His attitude, the attitude of an old and understanding professor, shaking his head musingly as his tender pupils, unmellowed yet in the autumnal fragrances of life, giggle covertly over the pages of Balzac and Flaubert, over the nudes of Manet, over even the innocent yearnings of the bachelor Chopin.
Europe After 8:15
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At his Balzacian best, he radiated warmth, buoyancy, optimism and hope; but in his more Dostoyevskian mode, he was consumed by doubt, loneliness, envy and disappointment.
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It was, according to Balzac, a world in which talent counted for nothing, and bribery, intrigue and unscrupulousness were the key factors in success.
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Balzac an entire shopful of battered old volumes, out of date and worthless.
Honore de Balzac
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The story of Frank Sinatra's rise and self-invention and the story of his fall and remarkable comeback had the lineaments of the most essential American myths, and their telling, Pete Hamill once argued, required a novelist, "some combination of Balzac and Raymond Chandler," who might "come closer to the elusive truth than an autobiographer as courtly as Sinatra will ever allow himself to do.
Book Review Roundup: Lennon, Dylan, Sinatra And Marilyn Monroe
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Unconsciously insincere, like the majority of people in their justificative confessions, Balzac often allowed his heart to intrude where it had no business to be present.
Balzac
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He [Balzac] tells us that he _is of an old Gaulish family_ (You understand, 'Gaulish' -- one of Charlemagne's peers!
Honore de Balzac, His Life and Writings
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_employe_ which Balzac was to rehandle so often, but drops suddenly into brigands stopping diligences, the marriage of the heroine Annette with a retired pirate marquis of vast wealth, the trial of the latter for murdering another marquis with a poisoned fish-bone scarf-pin, his execution, the sanguinary reprisals by his redoubtable lieutenant, and
The Human Comedy: Introductions and Appendix
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Balzac owed the Review 2,100 francs; but the remainder of the "Lys" was ready to appear, and he calculated that for this, the payment due to him would be about 2,400 francs.
Honore de Balzac, His Life and Writings
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Puzo, Mario, as Balzac paraphraser, 42; on morality of great fortunes, 42
Who's Who
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Perhaps the early nineteenth-century taste for glozing over the physical and instinctively egoistic elements which are present even in virtuous love… is what most separates Balzac from novelists and novel readers of today
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Monsieur Balzac very angry with Buchanan, for the same reason; nor will he by any means let us substitute Belzebub, Asmodeus, and Leviathan, in the room of Alecto, Tisiphone, and Megaera, which is, in his Opinion, perfect
Epistle to a Friend Concerning Poetry (1700) and the Essay on Heroic Poetry (second edition, 1697)
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Balzac, in replying, referred to Lemaitre's toupet, and explained that, when disguising Vautrin as a Mexican general, he had in his mind General Murat.
Balzac
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Also, this library admits (is allowed to admit on certain conditions) some books forbidden generally by the censureship, which is of the strictest; and though Balzac appears very imperfectly, I am delighted to find him at all, and shall dun the bookseller for the 'Instruction criminelle,' which I hope discharges your Lucien as a 'forcat' ” neither man nor woman ” and true poet, least of all ....
The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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I want to live to excess! cries Balzac's hero, Raphael de Valentin, as he clutches the magic shagreen, or ass's skin, that will prolong his life of dissipation and pleasure, according to the antiquary who gives it to him.
Decadent Writing Of the 19th Century
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Between that which Balzac tabulated as the "abstractive" type of human evolvement and that which is fully cosmic in consciousness, there are many and diverse degrees of the higher faculties; but the poet always expresses some one of these degrees of the higher consciousness; indeed some poets are of that versatile nature that they run the entire gamut of the emotional nature, now descending to the ordinary normal consciousness which takes account only of the personal self; again ascending to the heights of the impersonal fearlessness and unassailable confidence that is the heritage of those who have reached the full stature of the "man-god whom we await" -- the cosmic conscious race that is to be.
Cosmic Consciousness
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Balzac was interested in the occult sciences -- in chiromancy and cartomancy.
Women in the Life of Balzac
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The facade of the house on the Rue Fortunee, now the Rue Balzac, was also to be embellished, and the central pavilion made to represent the novelist's apotheosis, with a monumental bass-relief and a niche.
Balzac
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If that is the case then Balzac (only ever read Cousin Bette – illiterate lout that I am [unreliable narrator?]), must be presenting a code that we have learned to accept as a representation of “normality”, which is not only him (it) deceiving us, but ourselves deceiving ourselves.
Reading Workshop I « Tales from the Reading Room
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Cruelty and fear shake hands together. Honore de Balzac
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Noting, correctly, that few scholars actually finish The Historical Novel, Maxwell points out that it "fixates" 66 on the historical novel as modeled by Scott, and treats all later attempts at the form as sad deviants from the original; when Lukacs shifts his attention from Scott to Balzac, the historical novel qua form simply vanishes into contemporary realism.
The Historical Novel in Europe, 1650-1950
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It is possible to overpraise Balzac in parts or to mispraise him as a whole.
The Human Comedy: Introductions and Appendix
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Balzac, according to this logic, had no stylistic dilemmas when he sat down to write.
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- Balzac, Honore de - Cousin Bette; Eugene Grandet; Pere Goriot
Wednesday wishes
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The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. Honore de Balzac
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Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact. Honore De Balzac
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Many characters in Balzac's " Human Comedy " figure in more than one novel or story.
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The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. Honore de Balzac
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Balzac once wrote that ‘the most natural emotions are those we acknowledge with the most repugnance.’
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We have several young novelists here who are trying to invent a form to supersede Balzac's.
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She does confess to like Sade, Gautier, Balzac, Baudelaire, Huysmans, Sartre whom I find difficult to stomach, de Beauvoir, Genet and Bachelard.
American academics down on their knees kissing French bums « Jahsonic
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“Balzac” with intensest pleasure, and I am looking forward to more Shakespeare — you will of course put all your
Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions
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Soon the official ran in under their lee, passed alongside with slackened pace, and clarioned into the novelist's ear: "Monsieur de Balzac, this is beginning to get musical.
Balzac
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I'm still not feeling brave enough to tackle Balzac but do have Cousin Bette waiting when I have amassed the courage.
Book-to-book transfusion
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Balzac protested strenuously against the use of the word "gigantesque" in reference to his work; and of course it is susceptible of an unhandsome innuendo.
The Human Comedy: Introductions and Appendix
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Let the Comedie Humaine write itself and it will outwrite Balzac.
Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude
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*] The nieces, of whom Balzac was really extremely fond, "sulked" no longer, but wrote letters which their uncle praised highly, and which he answered gaily and amusingly.
Honore de Balzac, His Life and Writings
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But the last section entitled " Balzac the observer " has universal relevance.
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The world's most visited cemetery has a star-studded afterlife gathering, with residents as diverse as Edith Piaf, Marcel Proust, Oscar Wilde, Honore de Balzac and Isadora Duncan.
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The development of Balzac's literary ideology is a complicated course.
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The guys nick some four-eyed geek's suitcase full of forbidden books - and this is where the title's Balzac reference comes in.
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He was to regain absolute rights over his books three months after their first publication -- this was an invariable stipulation in all Balzac's treaties -- and was to give up fifty francs out of the two hundred and fifty considered due to him for each "feuille" of fifteen pages, to reimburse Buloz for the number of times the proofs had to be reprinted. [
Honore de Balzac, His Life and Writings
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For Robbe-Grillet, there was also a direct correlation between Balzacian realism as a literary form and the society which produced it.
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i understand completely why balzac died of caffiene poisoning ... my favourite writer's tipple is green tea with toasted rice ... it reminds me of the nanowrimo stint a couple of years ago
Funny Writing Habits
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A wasting beauty in women was called ethereal, while robust health was considered vulgar; in men, tuberculosis was thought to denote creative genius, prompted by the suffering of such artists as Poe, Goethe, Balzac, Stevenson, and Keats.
A Furnace Afloat
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Madame Hanska was not only willing that Balzac should write to her but sent him her address and they exchanged messages frequently about the canoness.
Women in the Life of Balzac
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[208] They are both connected with the "orgie" - mania, and the last is a deliberate burlesque of the originals of P.L. Jacob, Janin, Eugène Sue, and Balzac himself.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
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To this insinuation Balzac gave no credence; he naturally found it easy to believe in one more enthusiastic foreign admirer, and he was seriously troubled by the fact that the first dizain of the "Contes Drolatiques," which certainly would not satisfy his correspondent's views on the lofty mission of womanhood, was likely to appear shortly.
Honore de Balzac, His Life and Writings
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Not even Balzac was too great for abridgement, carped the critics.
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Balzac, in replying, referred to Lemaitre's _toupet_, and explained that, when disguising Vautrin as a Mexican general, he had in his mind General Murat.
Balzac
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Although _Pyetushkov_ shows us, by a certain open _naïveté_ of style, that a youthful hand is at work, it is the hand of a young master, carrying out the realism of the 'forties' -- that of Gogol, Balzac, and
A Desperate Character and Other Stories
