Balzac
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- flashbender
So, I just finished Pere Goriot... which makes more sense to read next - A Harolt High and Low or Lost Illusions. Or if Eugene is the centerpoint of any of the other books?
Also, does anyone have a link to a chronological list of the order the action in the books take place?
Or just derail the thread and make 4th grade jokes about ball sacks.
- mg330
What?
- Ramanisky20
this thread is chock full of Bollocks
- Point50
I have no idea what "Balzac" is, so, naturally I'm gonna have to go with Wrinkled Leather Marble Bags for $500 Alex...
- Mishga0
Honoré de Balzac
(May 20, 1799 – August 18, 1850) was a nineteenth-century French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of almost 100 novels and plays collectively entitled La Comédie Humaine...Voilá!!
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- blaw0
Best stage name ever:
Teabag Balzac, leader singer for Confederate Fag.
- menos0
Or just derail the thread and make 4th grade jokes about ball sacks.
flashbender
(Oct 26 07, 09:17)What?
mg33
(Oct 26 07, 09:19)I have no idea what "Balzac" is, so, naturally I'm gonna have to go with Wrinkled Leather Marble Bags for $500 Alex...
Point5
(Oct 26 07, 09:31)heheheheh...just what i thought would happen...
I have never read anything of his but i know of him and his work. My cuz used to be a big fan of his stuff...
- capsize0
http://www.balzacsparis.ucr.edu/…
sign me up
- flashbender0
I have never read anything of his but i know of him and his work. My cuz used to be a big fan of his stuff...
menos
(Oct 26 07, 09:56)
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I thought it started slowly - a lot of set up but once it got going I thought it was really good... a bit long winded at times, but but a very good read overall.
- jaylarson0
Best stage name ever:
Teabag Balzac, leader singer for Confederate Fag.
blaw
(Oct 26 07, 09:41)I prefer GWAR's Balzac Jaws of Death, but a close second.
- capsize0
Rodin worked on the Monument to Balzac for seven years. He completed at least fifty studies, some based on Balzac's actual appearance and others more subjective and abstract. Most of the studies were of Balzac's head, as Rodin felt it more important to emphasize the heads of people of such high intellect. He finished the monument in 1898 and presented the final nine-foot plaster model to the public. It was met with outrage, disbelief, and ridicule, and as a result the literary society refused to accept it. Deeply hurt by the criticism, Rodin removed the sculpture to his studio at Meudon, outside of Paris, and refused to allow it to be cast during his lifetime.
- capsize0
Rodin translated these shortcomings into an embodiment of robust strength. ‘Balzac’, he said, ‘is before everything a creator and this is the idea I would wish to make understood in my statue’. In the popular imagination, creativity was linked with virility and in one study (not on show), Rodin shows Balzac clutching a giant erection. A masturbating man would not have been acceptable, of course, but the finished work is no less remarkable. Sheathed in the dressing gown in which he worked, Balzac’s whole figure becomes priapic – more satyr than saviour.
http://www.timeout.com/london/ar…