Les Chouans; Ou, La Bretagne En 1799 (Dodo Press)

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Dodo Press, 2009 - Fiction - 352 pages
Honore Balzac, dit Honore de Balzac (1799-1850) est un romancier, critique litteraire, essayiste, journaliste et ecrivain francais. Il est considere comme l'un des plus grands ecrivains francais dans le domaine du roman realiste, du roman philosophique et du roman fantastique par Gerard Gengembre, G. Vannier, le philosophe Alain, et Albert Beguin. Charles Baudelaire voyait en lui un visionnaire. Balzac est cependant difficile a classer dans l'une ou l'autre categorie, son oeuvre couvrant un champ si vaste que les critiques, tant de son siecle que du siecle suivant, passeront beaucoup de temps a lui chercher une etiquette appropriee sans y parvenir. Son oeuvre monumentale, La Comedie Humaine, cycle coherent de plusieurs dizaines de romans, nouvelles, contes philosophiques a pour ambition de decrire de facon quasi-exhaustive la societe francaise de son temps ou, selon la formule celebre, de faire "concurrence a l'etat-civil." Il n'hesite pas, en pleine Monarchie de Juillet, a afficher ses convictions legitimistes.

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About the author (2009)

Born on May 20, 1799, Honore de Balzac is considered one of the greatest French writers of all time. Balzac studied in Paris and worked as a law clerk while pursuing an unsuccessful career as an author. He soon accumulated enormous debts that haunted him most of his life. A prolific writer, Balzac would often write for 14 to-16 hours at a time. His writing is marked by realistic portrayals of ordinary, but exaggerated characters and intricate detail. In 1834, Balzac began organizing his works into a collection called The Human Comedy, an attempt to group his novels to present a complete social history of France. Characters in this project reappeared throughout various volumes, which ultimately consisted of approximately 90 works. Some of his works include Cesar Birotteau, Le Cousin Pons, Seraphita, and Le Cousine Bette. Balzac wed his lifelong love, Eveline Hanska in March 1850 although he was gravely ill at the time. Balzac died in August of that year.

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