Word: balzac
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...read in his reading machine. In its reduced shape, it was a 13-page pamphlet, 3½ inches wide, 5½ inches long. How big will an encyclopedia be when shrunk for the Fiskoscope? No bigger than an ordinary novel. The Oxford Dictionary? A trifling brochure. The works of Balzac, of James Fenimore Cooper, of Thackeray, Scott, James Joyce? Slender dockets. Dr. Eliot's five-foot shelf will melt to the thickness of a few packs of cards and those advertisement-readers who seek culture for ten minutes a day can carry whole libraries in their waistcoat pockets...
...holding a memorial exhibit of reliques, papers, letters, reminiscent of the life of Wolfgang Goethe. To reciprocate, the Prussian State Library recently opened a similar exhibit for a Scandinavian genius, Hans Christian Andersen. First editions of his books, illustrations for his earliest fairy tales, letters from Hugo, Heine, Balzac, Lamartine, De Vigny, the Grimm brothers and the Grand Duke of Weimar, ladies' favors, gentlemen's favors, and the souvenirs of princes, are shown there, and the German schoolchildren who went to gaze at them were told first the fantastic plot of his life, which was, after...
...isolated company of the world's greatest artists, appears incredible-would be impossible, if it were not that Rodin, all his life, created images in stone as rapidly as if to do so were a natural, an inescapable function of his body. An eminent critic once stated that Balzac, the novelist, was not an individual but one of Nature's forces, like fire or che wind; Rodin was treated with the same sort of primary electricity. He left as many wrought stones as a volcano -a giant's spawn, beyond precise inventory; countless groups of lovers, nymphs...
MAMMONART?Upton Sinclair?Published by himself ($2.00). Homer was a hanger-on, Pindar a pressagent, Æschylus a 100% Athenian, Raphael a pampered pet of popes. Dryden was a "bedroom" playwright, Coleridge a reactionary sensualist, Balzac a predatory careerist...
...come to some conclusion about himself. He should go a step farther in his egocentric career. He should come out boldly to himself with the statement that he undoubtedly believes what many of his critics announce. Why not say it out loud, Mr. Anderson: "I am the American Balzac...