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...take some solace in knowing that Balzac was criticized the same way -- he was obsessed with furniture. Details are of no use unless they lead you to an understanding of the heart. It's no mystery; it has to do with the whole subject of status...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interview: Master Of His Universe: TOM WOLFE | 2/13/1989 | See Source »

Milken's legacy will take years to come fully into focus. "Behind every great fortune there is a great crime," Balzac once said. "Great fortunes are made by solving problems" is the way Milken has preferred to see it. The Government's view should be known in a few weeks. The true value of junk bonds will take longer to determine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Heap of Woe for the Junkman | 12/5/1988 | See Source »

Recognized as the father of the modern Arab novel, Mahfouz is frequently compared with such 19th century social realists as Dickens and Balzac. In nearly 40 novels and a dozen story collections, he has dealt with the social and political upheavals Egypt has experienced during his lifetime. His main contribution, says Sasson Somekh, a visiting professor of Arabic literature at Princeton, is the "creation of a new Egyptian style" that combines the narrative manner of classic texts such as The Thousand and One Nights with contemporary subject matter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Naguib Mahfouz : A Dickens of the Cairo Cafes | 10/24/1988 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Seeing Degas As Never Before | 10/17/1988 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Egyptian Novelist Awarded Nobel Prize | 10/14/1988 | See Source »

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