Traité des excitants modernes

Par Honore de Balzac

Balzac accordait aux choses de la bouche la part essentielle qui leur revient dans l’étude des mœurs individuelles et collectives. Son approche est toujours analytique et les comportements sociaux sont rapportés à ce qui les motive : de sa nourriture et de ses régimes peuvent dépendre les destinées d’un peuple...

• Langue: Français
• Éditeur: Editions de L'Herne
• Date de sortie: 27 oct. 2010
• ISBN: 9782851975768

Honore de Balzac

Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) was a French novelist, short story writer, and playwright. Regarded as one of the key figures of French and European literature, Balzac’s realist approach to writing would influence Charles Dickens, Émile Zola, Henry James, Gustave Flaubert, and Karl Marx. With a precocious attitude and fierce intellect, Balzac struggled first in school and then in business before dedicating himself to the pursuit of writing as both an art and a profession. His distinctly industrious work routine—he spent hours each day writing furiously by hand and made extensive edits during the publication process—led to a prodigious output of dozens of novels, stories, plays, and novellas. La Comédie humaine, Balzac’s most famous work, is a sequence of 91 finished and 46 unfinished stories, novels, and essays with which he attempted to realistically and exhaustively portray every aspect of French society during the early-nineteenth century.