Honore de Balzac, Best Novels by Honoré de Balzac

When both siblings returned home, they were kept at a frigid distance by their parents, which affected the author-to-be significantly. As an infant Balzac was sent to a wet-nurse followed by his younger sister the next year. His father, never called himself de Balzac and Honoré only assumed the noble particle after 1830. She was eighteen at the time of the wedding, and Bernard-François fifty. Honoré Balzac was born on May 20, 1799, as the second of five children to Bernard-François Balzac, Secretary to the King’s Council and a Freemason, and Anne-Charlotte-Laure Sallambier, who came from a family of haberdashers in Paris. Honoré de Balzac, Illusions perdues, 1839 Writing against his Father’s Wishes “What is Art, monsieur, but Nature concentrated?” His goal was to “ depicting all society, sketching it in the immensity of its turmoil“. By reusing already introduced characters in his stories, he created a connective linking everything together to a series. Overall, La Comédie Humaine was supposed to comprise 137 novels and short stories, of which Balzac could only finish 91volumes during lifetime, which makes Balzac a rather prolific writer, considering that he already died at age 50. He is best known for his his keen observation of detail and unfiltered representation of society, which is reflected in his opus magnum, the Comédie Humaine, sequence of short stories and novels, which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the 1815 fall of Napoleon Bonaparte, the period of the Restoration and the July Monarchy ( 1815– 1848). On May 20, 1799, French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac was born.

Honore de Balzac, Best Novels by Honoré de Balzac