Word: balzac
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...blitz by moving into London. Both died in their 80s after the war. Probably out of modesty, he sketches his later life very lightly, discussing his novels and short stories briefly and barely mentioning both his career as critic for the New Statesman and the major study of Balzac he has worked on for years. Now approaching his parents' great age, Pritchett looks at himself: "A bald man, his fattish face supported by a valance of chins. I am seventy, and in my father's phrase, 'I would like a little more.' " Is it too greedy...
...lavish with her praise of the musical talents of the rest of the family. "I'm square," she says repeatedly, and this is the same term she uses for her taste. Her favorite composer is Mozart, her best-loved authors those of the "Great tradition: Tolstoy, Stendhal, Proust, Balzac." In conversation she speaks affectionately of Rousseau as "the old boy," almost making one forget the brilliant and learned pages of her Men and Citizens: Rousseau's Social Theory, in which Jean-Jacques is treated in somewhat; more depth and in the opinions of Shklar's fellow scholars, in a remarkable...
...exit from the galleries housing the exhibition Picasso in the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art hand three sketches. They are portraits of Honore de Balzac, a writer whose work Picasso has illustrated, a literary figure who in trying to encompass la comedie humaine in his novels inspired Picasso to a similar undertaking in art. Perhaps if these studies had been placed at the entrance to the show, they would have served as a hint to make this anniversary retrospective more all-inclusive
...sought his scenes out, commuting seasonally to London, and finally in 1904 returning to the United States he had last observed 21 years before. He traveled as far as California on a notably successful lecture tour, sharing with his audiences (at fees of up to $250) "The Lesson of Balzac...
...wife Constance West dressed as Charlotte Corday and holding the letter that got her access to Marat's bathroom. It is an exhilarating picture, with its firm amplitude of shapes and stripes. Leslie thinks of his work in partly ethical terms. "I think," he reflects, "it was Balzac who said that when art begins to decay it is always realism that comes to the rescue. This is why we must fight for the restoration of the realistic painter's rights-why I feel that I have to paint from life, to restore, at least in myself, the power...