Balzac

• “-- The extraordinarily complicated bibliography of Balzac will be found all but complete in the _Histoire des oeuvres_ (1875 and later), attached by M. Spoelberch de Lovenjoul to the _Édition définitive_, and supplemented by him in numerous smaller works, _Autour de Balzac_, _Une”

  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"

• “[Brochure of M. le Docteur Fournier in regard to the statue of Balzac, that statue a piece of work to which M. Henry Renault -- another devotee who had established _Le Balzac_ -- had given himself so ardently.”

  Repertory of the Comedie Humaine Part 1

• “As to Balzac is it not open to us to argue with what is written there?”

  Reading Workshop I « Tales from the Reading Room

• “Not only has the development been considerable since the middle of the nineteenth century, but it began immediately, in Balzac's own period.”

  Experimental Fiction

• “Rhetorically, I suppose you would call all of those riding crops and cravats and shirt buttons in Balzac's world synecdoches: they are parts that stand for an intelligible whole.”

  Realism in Fiction

• “This fact alone summarizes the exorbitant economy in Balzac which links together writing and excessive consumption. close window”

  Notes on 'Economies of Excess in Brillat-Savarin, Balzac, and Baudelaire'

• “A related oscillation between homage and satire figures prominently in Balzac's supplement to the”

  Economies of Excess in Brillat-Savarin, Balzac, and Baudelaire

• “In the hope that the books within might provide me with a clue to the identity of the owner, I placed my head to the glass and scrutinised the titles, but was disappointed to be confronted with uniform sets of the world's great writers, each in his original tongue: Dickens in English, Balzac in French, Goethe in German, and Dante in Italian.”

  the mission song

• “We can see ourselves reflected more clearly in Balzac's Parisians than in a modern American who goes into raptures when his daughter says "Toyota Celica" in her sleep.”

  A Reader's Manifesto

• “Becoming ironical, she called Balzac a _Vetturino per amore_, and told him she had heard that Madame Hanska was, to be sure, exceedingly flattered by his homage and made him follow wherever she went -- but only through vanity and pride, -- that she was indeed very happy in having for _patito_ a man of genius, but that her social position was too high to permit his aspiring to any other title.”

  Women in the Life of Balzac

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