Profile of the Day: Honoré de Balzac

Posted May 20, 2013 by Amanda | No Comment

Honore de Balzac

On May 20, 1799, noted French novelist Honoré de Balzac was born in Tours, France. Regarded as one of the founders of realism in European literature, Balzac exhibited an unfiltered representation of society in his works. La Comédie Humaine, a series of short stories and novels representing French life after the 1815 fall of Napoleon Bonaparte, is widely regarded as one of his greatest achievements of his career. Many subsequent novelists would be greatly influenced by Balzac’s writings, including Marcel Proust, Charles Dickens and Emile Zola.

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