Word: balzacs
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...inferior to that of Tolstoy's novels; it is true that the mental level of the cinema, and particularly its emotional level, is quite low. But without the film, the millions who have seen Anna Karenina would never have read the novel. Westerns have not replaced Plato or Balzac; they have replaced The Three Musketeers and Treasure Island...
Snubs & Snobs. On the Continent, there was James, the Paris grandee who was painted by Delacroix, hobnobbed with Meyerbeer and Rossini, was the subject of a story by his friend Balzac, the object of a snub by his friend Heine. In Austria, during the early days, the Rothschilds had Metternich as their friend at court...
...found last week aboard the family yacht Angelita, along with $4,562,837 in U.S. currency and Dominican pesos. Airfreighted to Paris, the body was taken for burial to Pére-Lachaise Cemetery, resting place of Abélard and Héloïse, Chopin and Balzac...
...plumbing the "collective unconscious" before Jung labeled it, celebrating the irrational before Freud discovered its starring role. Far from having the gift of self-analysis, Yeats possessed instead a talent for endless self-dramatization. There are extended comments in the essays on Shakespeare, Shelley, Blake, William Morris and Balzac, but one quickly discovers that these are pseudonyms for William Butler Yeats. Then there is Yeats, the prophet of the Celtic Twilight (the "cultic twalette," Joyce called it), sitting on the turf in Connacht and self-consciously schooling himself to be a poet of the peasants. But as Stephen Spender once...
Comic Ghoul. Max Beerbohm remains the master among the parodists, although men of greater genius (e.g., Proust, who makes an appearance in French spoofing Balzac, and William Faulkner, in a rare item, parodying himself) have worked in this deceptive motley. Why the passion for parody among writers? Macdonald finds parody inherent in a mature culture; it is a way of digesting the past. Parody obviously demands that the original parodied should be well known to the reader, and this calls for a firmly held common culture. It persists today among the British as a form of "upper-class folk...