Life and creativity of Honore de Balzac
The impressive figure of the French writer of unsurpassed creativity, Honore de Balzac, has risen over the nineteenth century. This extremely enterprising man was a journalist, he failed as an industrialist, failed to realize himself as an entrepreneur, but for twenty years he had created almost a hundred novels. Although he has been persecuted for many years by his numerous creditors, he has succeeded in establishing himself in the society at the time, and has secured the nickname "the child of the century", which he has known today. Thus, Balzac creates a reputation as a man of action, as well as an irrepressible dreamer, constantly challenged by contradictions in the newly established civil society.
Balzac often reminds of the two instances in which he places the strengthening of public morals: the throne and the altar. Another distinguished French writer of the nineteenth century, Victor Hugo, defines himself as a "writer-revolutionary" in a speech given at the funeral of his genius. introduced a rooted twist in the development of novelist novelist literature. His contemporaries see him as a "realist," but the symbolist poet Charles Baudelaire praises him as obsessed with his spectacular visionary fantasm. His work includes all the fruitful artistic tendencies of his era of radical transformation. It is they who fill it with a titanic creative power and turn its ambitious, deep and deep, novel series "Human Comedy" into a masterpiece of European literature. His father, Bernard François Balsa, was an imperial clerk, son of the Great French Revolution. At age 51, he linked his life with a nineteen year old girl this strange marriage like union at that time could be seen as the starting point for the formation of Balzac as a novelist. Indeed, in early novels, Balzac embraces the story of unfortunate married women, and makes insightful analyzes of family life, the breakdown of family ties. If the father confessed to liberal ideas and welcomed progressive reforms in society with approval, the mother did not particularly love her "imposed" children, early closing herself, preferring the sadness of lonely life. As the family followed the father's "route of appointment," the child was born in 1799 in the French city of Tour. So he is not firmly connected with his birthplace and will know his native district of Turen only when he entered the age of maturity.
Parents give the infant a nurse, and when the child grows up from eight to fourteen years, they close it behind the walls of the prestigious Vandom College. So, Honore retains some memories of a happy family life during her childhood. Such a fate is doomed to both his later sisters - Laura, who came to light in 1800 and Laurent - in 1802. From 1814, the Balsa family lived in Paris, where Honore entered the prestigious Lyceum, now known as the Carl Great. Meanwhile, an illegitimate child born of a mother's extramarital relationship is born. Later, the author of the novel "Marriage Physiology" will dare to speculate that suffering in difficult marital life often generates adultery. According to the father's will, his son must learn and become a notary. But after graduating as a law student, the disobedient adolescent decided to become a writer. So Balzac breaks at the same time with a well-established idea of Hansen's prosperity and his own family. He decides to build his own career. At that time, Honore was convinced a "leftist", as he was marked by reading the treatises of Englishman John Locke, and was conquered by the ideas of sensualism advocated in them. He is also interested in the social ideas of the French social thinker Saint Simon. His choice to cope with life alone dictated him at first to a miserable existence. Balzac is housed in a mansard room on Leidigier Street in Paris and self-indulging in hard work. Later, he transferred his experience to a young "pen-worker" in his novels. At the age of twenty, he has already learned the life of the poor student and the creator who is looking for himself. In order to achieve success in literature in the 1820s, it was necessary to put it in the theater, to compose poetry or to write a story. Balzac tries to write a tragedy, Cromwell, but his failure is full. To feed he starts writing novels for entertaining readers in the first public libraries. He publishes under various pseudonyms primarily anti-romantic and satirical novels: Jean Louis, "The Hero of the Beer". From the pseudonyms chosen by the young writer Balzac, he shows that he wants to emphasize his noble origins: Oras de Saint-Denis, Lord R'on.