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HONORE DE BALZAC
Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850)– Born
in
Tours
,
France
, Balzac would become one of the creators of Realism in literature. He worked as
both a journalist and writer, and wrote several plays and novels early in his
career under different pseudonyms without success. In 1833 he decided to link
his older novels together so they would comprehend the whole of society in a
series of books, a plan that eventually led to 90 novels and novellas that
included more than 2,000 characters. This huge production of work is collected
under the name La Comédie Humanie, which originated from Dante’s The
Divine Comedy. Among his more widely recognized works are Cousine Bette (1846),
Le Père Goriot (1834/35), Eugènie Grandet (1833), and Les
Illusions Perdues (1837-43). In debt throughout most of his life, Balzac
died in
Paris
in 1850.
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