Pourquoi Honoré de Balzac Entre Si Facilement Dans la Vie de L’Europe et Celle du Monde : 220 Ans Dès Son Anniversaire
Why Honoré de Balzac Gets So Easily Into the Lives of Europe and the World: 220 Years From His Birthday

Summary/Abstract: The cohort of the Balzacians is enormous and worth admiring. If only we tried to evoke here the names of all those who left us valuable judgments about Balzac and religion in his work, or about Balzac and social life, or about his vision of money (l'argent dans l'oeuvre de Balzac), then we would be privileged to have an iconic lexicographic source. The cohort of those, who continue to decode the “miracle” of Balzac, is renovating and growing year by year. It seems that no writer, in the last 400 years (except W. Shakespeare), has enjoyed so much scientific attention and curiosity. Balzac's creation, like the pyramids in Egypt, fascinates and compels us to conduct new philological investigations in order to decipher his greatness. It is a real fact, which can be explained quite objectively: Balzac is a universe, a planet, Himself, being considered a universe in the universe, a world, because he is the world. We are at the beginning of another age. 220 years from the birth of a genius have become history. But this story is alive, contemporary and always vibrating, because everything Balzac discovered in his monumental work La Comédie Humaine, remains undoubtedly important today.

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