Honoré de Balzac
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| - | '''Honoré de Balzac''' (French [[International Phonetic Alphabet|IPA]]: {{IPA|[ɔnɔ'ʀe də bal'zak]}}) ([[May 20]], [[1799]] – [[August 18]], [[1850]]), born ''Honoré Balzac'', was a nineteenth-century [[France|French]] [[novelist]] and [[playwright]]. His work, much of which is a [[Novel sequence|sequence]] (or ''Roman-fleuve'') of almost 100 novels and plays collectively entitled ''[[La Comédie humaine]]'', is a broad, often satirical panorama of French society, particularly the ''[[petite bourgeoisie]]'', in the years after the fall of [[Napoléon Bonaparte]] in 1815—namely the period of the [[Bourbon Dynasty, Restored|Restoration]] ([[1815]]–[[1830]]) and the [[July Monarchy]] (1830–[[1848]]). | + | '''Honoré de Balzac''' ([[May 20]], [[1799]] – [[August 18]], [[1850]]), born ''Honoré Balzac'', was a nineteenth-century [[France|French]] [[novelist]] and [[playwright]]. His work, much of which is a [[Novel sequence|sequence]] (or ''Roman-fleuve'') of almost 100 novels and plays collectively entitled ''[[La Comédie humaine]]'', is a broad, often satirical panorama of French society, particularly the ''[[petite bourgeoisie]]'', in the years after the fall of [[Napoléon Bonaparte]] in 1815—namely the period of the [[Bourbon Dynasty, Restored|Restoration]] ([[1815]]–[[1830]]) and the [[July Monarchy]] (1830–[[1848]]). |
| Along with [[Gustave Flaubert]] (whose work he influenced), Balzac is generally regarded as a founding father of [[Realism (arts)|realism]] in [[European literature]]. Balzac's novels, most of which are [[Farce|farcical]] [[Comedy|comedies]], feature a large cast of well-defined characters, and descriptions in exquisite detail of the [[scene]] of action. He also presented particular characters in different novels repeatedly, sometimes as main protagonists and sometimes in the background, in order to create the effect of a consistent 'real' world across his novelistic output. He is the pioneer of this style.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/{{PAGENAMEE}}] [May 2007] | Along with [[Gustave Flaubert]] (whose work he influenced), Balzac is generally regarded as a founding father of [[Realism (arts)|realism]] in [[European literature]]. Balzac's novels, most of which are [[Farce|farcical]] [[Comedy|comedies]], feature a large cast of well-defined characters, and descriptions in exquisite detail of the [[scene]] of action. He also presented particular characters in different novels repeatedly, sometimes as main protagonists and sometimes in the background, in order to create the effect of a consistent 'real' world across his novelistic output. He is the pioneer of this style.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/{{PAGENAMEE}}] [May 2007] | ||
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Honoré de Balzac (May 20, 1799 – August 18, 1850), born Honoré Balzac, was a nineteenth-century French novelist and playwright. His work, much of which is a sequence (or Roman-fleuve) of almost 100 novels and plays collectively entitled La Comédie humaine, is a broad, often satirical panorama of French society, particularly the petite bourgeoisie, in the years after the fall of Napoléon Bonaparte in 1815—namely the period of the Restoration (1815–1830) and the July Monarchy (1830–1848).
Along with Gustave Flaubert (whose work he influenced), Balzac is generally regarded as a founding father of realism in European literature. Balzac's novels, most of which are farcical comedies, feature a large cast of well-defined characters, and descriptions in exquisite detail of the scene of action. He also presented particular characters in different novels repeatedly, sometimes as main protagonists and sometimes in the background, in order to create the effect of a consistent 'real' world across his novelistic output. He is the pioneer of this style.[1] [May 2007]
