Okay, not everything in this book meets the standards of realism as practiced by Balzac and Zola.
What are the Best Novels on Music?|Ted Gioia|October 19, 2013|DAILY BEAST
So any list of the “essential” Balzac inevitably omits a handful of great works.
Happy Birthday, Balzac: The Essential Novels|Ronald K. Fried|May 20, 2013|DAILY BEAST
As I said, Balzac wrote about an epoch that is curiously like our own.
Happy Birthday, Balzac: The Essential Novels|Ronald K. Fried|May 20, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Balzac was the great novelist of money, social climbing, and power.
Happy Birthday, Balzac: The Essential Novels|Ronald K. Fried|May 20, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Notice that Balzac—who at times is a delightfully heavy-handed writer—never shies away from explicitly stating his case.
Happy Birthday, Balzac: The Essential Novels|Ronald K. Fried|May 20, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Balzac's liabilities, at the moment of the failure, were one hundred and thirteen thousand francs.
Balzac|Frederick Lawton
Balzac's influence during his lifetime was, with but few exceptions, exercised outside his own, novelist's profession.
Balzac|Frederick Lawton
Balzac has never drawn a more heart-moving figure, nor has he ever sounded more thoroughly the depths of human selfishness.
Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol 3|Various
Why, I even doubt if it is you who furnish me all that excellent information about Balzac and those others.
Essays on Paul Bourget|Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
And according to Renard, Balzac distinguishes two classes of writers: the writers of ideas and the writers of images.
Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance|Donald Lemen Clark
British Dictionary definitions for Balzac
Balzac
/ (ˈbælzæk, Frenchbalzak) /
noun
Honoré de (ɔnɔre də). 1799–1850, French novelist: author of a collection of novels under the general title La Comédie humaine, including Eugénie Grandet (1833), Le Père Goriot (1834), and La Cousine Bette (1846)