Quelques aspects stylistiques chez Balzac
Some Stylistic Aspects in Balzac's Works

Summary/Abstract: The revolution Balzac brought forth in his novels consisted, among other things, in the dramatization of triviality and the transformation of the anonymous detail into a vital clue for the meticulously described novel scenery. In the indirect presentation of the character, Balzac innovates the realistic novel structure by resorting to massive descriptions of the urban areas and, above all, of the enclosed spaces; the latter define the hero’s psychological context, it becomes consubstantial to one’s human, sometimes tragic, profile, and play in the text the most variable parts. The aspects concerned with Balzac’s style and fictional techniques include particularly the art references to the Renaissance, the use of contrast, the use of the chiaroscuro technique in the description of an interior space, the metaphors and the verbal tenses.

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