Word: balzac
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...omnibus -- you can look at people. We were created to look at one another, weren't we?" No passing remark could take you closer to the heart of 19th century realism: the idea of the artist as an engine for looking, a being whose destiny was to study what Balzac, in a famous phrase that declared its rebellion from the theological order of Dante's Divine Comedy, called La Comedie Humaine...
Mahfouz was one of the first literary figures to abandon the old classical style in Egyptian literature and write in a newly emerging style of combined romanticism and realism, Mahdi said, adding that Mahfouz was strongly influenced by the French novels of the 19th century. "He grew up reading Balzac," Mahdi said...
...take great solace in the fact that Balzac, who is my idol, was constantly criticized for the enumeration of status details," Wolfe says in the March issue of New York. "There was a great debate in the 19th century between observation and imagination. Observation was seen as tainted, and Balzac was dismissed as a mere observer," he says, referring to the fact that Balzac was never elected to the elite literary organization, the French Academy, while most of his contemporaries were...
...habitat, to examine its plumage, to listen to the roar of "well-educated young white men baying for money." In short, New Journalism shares much with the traditional novel of manners and society. "Realism is a plateau from which literature cannot back down," says Wolfe, acknowledging his debt to Balzac, Thackeray, Dickens and Evelyn Waugh...
...pastimes. There isn't much time these days, but when there is an hour here or there, I turn to reading. My first love is Vietnamese literature, but I also enjoy Victor Hugo, Balzac, Mark Twain, Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Paine...