I've always wondered about the part in The Music Man, when an imposing woman wanders through spouting "Balzac!" at various points when they're worrying about the degeneration that is likely to happen to young people who don't have proper diversions, like a community band as opposed to things bound t...
Eugenie Grandet is one of the signature works of French literature, and Flaubert, who wrote Madame Bovary and is arguably the most celebrated French novelist, was supposedly greatly influenced by Balzac. It's easy reading Eugene Grandet to trace the line of realism in French lit...
The Girl with the Golden Eyes...such an unassuming title. If one considers Balzac to be one of the classical writers, than one would reach for this book thinking it would go along the lines of other classic novellas. Hmmm...the title sounds almost romantic. The Girl with the Golden Eyes is an intere...
This story takes place in the town of Saumur. That's where Eugénie and her very normal family lives. Her father is a miserly former cooper that hides his fortune from her wife and daughter and made them live in an old, cold and poor house that he doesn't want to repair because, well, money must be s...
Loved this book. It's more poetry than prose. It's the kind of work that tempts you to read it aloud all the time. The only thing that keeps you from doing that, is the fear of being tagged a maniac. You can always read it aloud in your own mind though. It's your own little, almost mischievous, game...
This short story inspired the artist Picasso and was one of his favorites. But, to be honest, It didn't touch me the way it did to him! I found it just normal - good! Just good!
The beginning starts off as a long battle between the Chouans, the Royalist-supporting, fiercely Catholic, Breton peasants of the countryside lead by Marche-a-Terre and ‘The Gars’ aka Marquis de Montauran, versus the Republican army aka ‘Blues’ of Bonaparte, lead by Hulot. Be prepared for every char...
"Ne može se živeti bez velikih zaborava."Kao priča za sebe, skoro savršena.Kao deo "Ljudske komedije", genijalna.Balzak mi polako postaje sve draži. Skidam slušalicu, nikad ovakav pisac od mene.
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