Word: balzacs
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...speaks of the wonders of nature, and he reads incessantly. "He loves literature," says one of his advisers. "When things are not going badly he will talk about nothing but literature; he only talks politics when he is worried." His favorite writer is Chateaubriand. But he also reveres Balzac, Emile Zola, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and the Nobel-prizewinning French poet Saint-John Perse. He came to Marx late and has never read him in his entirety. Several years ago, at a summer cultural festival in Avignon, he remarked, "The day when there will be a socialist art, I will...
...Mark's teammates also had good days. In the 110-meter hurdles Chuck Johnson set a new personal record of 14.6 seconds--a full third of a second off his old time--on a cinder track that is only a little faster than the novels in Comp Lit 154, "Balzac, Dickens and Dostoyevski...
Looming influences on his works are Balzac, Faulkner, Kafka, and Cervantes, "who is the greatest writer in the world--he knows all the secrets of life...
...certainly urbane and charming. He speaks fluidly, puts one at case immediately, and quotes Balzac and Weber in the same breath. His silver mustache is immaculately clipped, his movements supple. And he knew how to run the tape recorder better than...
McCarthy's collection of Northcliffe Lectures from University College in London, can be read in two ways. One is as pure literary criticism, as a reinterpretation of Stendhal and Balzac. She writes with assurance and insight of the 19th century novel, of George Eliot's "homely English novel," of the literary use of Napoleon as the personification of genius, of Les Miserables and Jean Valjean's conscience as a dialogue. Her writing is spirited but there are grounds for disagreement, such as her contention that the fiction of Conrad "went so far in' the direction of brevity and concentration that...