Honoré de Balzac

Honoré de Balzac (French: [ɔ.nɔ.ʁe d(ə) bal.zak]; 20 Mey 1799 – 18 August 1850) wis a French novelist an playwricht. The novelle sequence La Comédie humaine, that presents a panorama o post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his magnum opus.

Honoré de Balzac LH
Born	Honoré Balssa 20 Mey 1799(1799-05-20) Tours, Indre-et-Loire, Fraunce
Dee'd	18 August 1850(1850-08-18) (aged 51) Paris, Fraunce
Restin place	Père Lachaise Seemetry, Paris, Fraunce
Thrift	Writer, creetic, jurnalist, prenter
Naitionality	French
Period	19th century
Genre	Novel, dramaturgy, essay
Leeterar muivement	Realism
Notable warks	La Comédie humaine La Comédie humaine La Peau de chagrin Eugénie Grandet Le Père Goriot Colonel Chabert Le Lys dans la vallée Illusions perdues Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes
Years active	1829–1850
Spoose	Ewelina Hańska (m. 1850–1850); his daith
Signatur

Awin tae his keen observation o detail an unfiltered representation o society, Balzac is regairdit as ane of the foonders o realism in European leeteratur. He is renawned for his multi-faceted chairacters; even his lesser chairacters are complex, morally ambiguous an fully human. Inanimate objects are imbued wi chairacter as wall; the ceety o Paris, a backdrap for muckle o his writin, taks on mony human qualities. His writin influenced mony famous writers, includin the novelists Émile Zola, Charles Dickens, Gustave Flaubert, Jack Kerouac, an Henry James, filmmakkers Akira Kurosawa an Eric Rohmer as weel as important filosofers sic as Friedrich Engels. Mony o Balzac's warks hae been made intae films, an thay conteena tae inspire ither writers.

An enthusiastic reader an independent thinker as a bairn, Balzac haed tribble adaptin tae the teachin style o his grammar schuil. His willfu naitur caused tribble ootthrou his life an frustratit his ambeetions tae succeed in the warld o business. Whan he feenished schuil, Balzac wis apprenticed in a law office, but he turned his back on the study o law efter wearyin o its inhumanity an banal routine. Afore an in his career as a writer, he attemptit tae be a publisher, prenter, businessman, creetic, an politeecian; he failed in aw o thir efforts. La Comédie Humaine reflects his real-life difficulties, an includes scenes frae his awn experience.

Balzac suffered frae heal problems ootthrou his life, possibly due tae his intense writin schedule. His relationship wi his faimily wis eften strained bi financial an personal drama, an he lost mair nor ane friend ower creetical reviews. In 1850, Balzac mairied Ewelina Hańska, a Pols aristocrat an his langtime love; he dee'd in Paris five month later.