Honoré de Balzac

Local nameHonoré de Balzac
Location20th arrondissement of Paris, France

Honoré de Balzac was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his magnum opus.

Owing to his keen observation of detail and unfiltered representation of society, Balzac is regarded as one of the founders of realism in European literature. He is renowned for his multi-faceted characters; even his lesser characters are complex, morally ambiguous and fully human. Inanimate objects are imbued with character as well; the city of Paris, a backdrop for much of his writing, takes on many human qualities. His writing influenced many famous writers, including the novelists Émile Zola, Charles Dickens, Gustave Flaubert, and Henry James, filmmakers François Truffaut and Jacques Rivette, and philosophers such as Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx. Many of Balzac's works have been made into films and continue to inspire other writers.

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Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honoré_de_Balzac

Address Chemin Casimr Delavigne, Paris 75020, France

Coordinates 48°51'46.005" N 2°23'35.244" E

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