Balzac
Prolific Parisian novelist
Honoré de Balzac was a nineteenth-century French novelist whose massive body of work, *La Comédie humaine*, depicted French society in exhaustive realistic detail.
His name evokes prolific literary output and sweeping social observation.
Balzac is sometimes invoked as shorthand for ambitious realist fiction: She's attempting a Balzac of contemporary Los Angeles.
Writer of prose narratives
- realismAccepting things as they are
- manuscriptsHandwritten or typed originals
- proseUnversified language
- storytellerOne who recounts tales
chronicler · literati · wordsmith · biographer · essayist · serialization · characterization · observation
France's chief city
- ToursLoire Valley municipality
- SorbonneFamous Parisian academic institution
- Restoration1660s monarchical revival
- salonsGrooming establishments
aristocracy · bourgeoisie · francs · Parisian
Appearance of being factual
- bourgeoisieCapitalist ownership class
- materialismPrioritizing goods over spirit
- ambitionDesire for achievement
- greedExcessive desire for wealth
society · psychology · detail · mores · observation · naturalism · authenticity · depiction
Output relative to input
- volumesAmounts or books
- serializationEncoding objects for transmission
- deadlineTime limit for completion
- coffeeBrewed bean beverage
obsession · tireless · fecund · industrious · energetic · manuscript · nocturnal · workaholic
Emotion-centered artistic movement
- DickensSurname of Victorian novelist
- HugoScience fiction award
- gaslightDistort someone's reality
- serializationEncoding objects for transmission
Flaubert · Zola · journalism · lithography · industrialization · Restoration · Sand
novelist
Writer of prose narratives
- realismAccepting things as they are
- manuscriptsHandwritten or typed originals
- proseUnversified language
storyteller · chronicler · literati · wordsmith · biographer · essayist · serialization · characterization · observation · correspondence
Paris
France's chief city
- ToursLoire Valley municipality
- SorbonneFamous Parisian academic institution
- Restoration1660s monarchical revival
salons · aristocracy · bourgeoisie · francs · Parisian
verisimilitude
Appearance of being factual
- bourgeoisieCapitalist ownership class
- materialismPrioritizing goods over spirit
- ambitionDesire for achievement
greed · society · psychology · detail · mores · observation · naturalism · authenticity · depiction · socioeconomic
productivity
Output relative to input
- volumesAmounts or books
- serializationEncoding objects for transmission
- deadlineTime limit for completion
coffee · obsession · tireless · fecund · industrious · energetic · manuscript · nocturnal · workaholic · debts
Romanticism
Emotion-centered artistic movement
Flaubert · Zola · serialization · journalism · lithography · industrialization · Restoration · Sand
- 1830s Franceconstitutional monarchy, Bourbon Restoration, tricolor flag, tricolor, barricades
- literaturebooks, book, fiction, poetry, stories
- AuthorsShakespeare, William Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Twain, F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Famous AuthorsShakespeare, Dickens, Austen, Hemingway, Twain
- French Culturebaguette, baguettes, beret, berets, brie
- NovelistsStephen King, Agatha Christie, Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen
BalzacBaudelaire
French decadent poet
Victor Hugo · Emily Dickinson · Petrarch · Shelley · Keats
BalzacKafka
Czech-Jewish literary surname
Borges · E.T.A. Hoffmann · Edgar Allan Poe · Gabriel García Márquez · Lewis Carroll