| As the authors point out, Le Monde's pages have become France's contemporary Balzac, a feuilleton that readers can follow day by day. |
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| Feeling guilty about owing the kindly journalist for her fare, she hocks a valuable Balzac first edition for 180,000 francs and pays her debt. |
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| Balzac pumped him for information on organised crime and political espionage. |
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| Not even Balzac was too great for abridgement, carped the critics. |
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| It was, according to Balzac, a world in which talent counted for nothing, and bribery, intrigue and unscrupulousness were the key factors in success. |
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| She saw herself as part of a larger tradition that includes Honore de Balzac, Leo Tolstoy, Marcel Proust, and Thomas Mann. |
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| Okay, not everything in this book meets the standards of realism as practiced by Balzac and Zola. |
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| It has already been compared to Citizen Kane, The Godfather, and Balzac. |
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| That's change, if you like to call it so. But the heart of things is just the same. Balzac stands for Paris, believe you me. |
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| The truth is that Zola was an opsimath, who had read Stendhal, Flaubert, Balzac, the Goncourts and Taine late in life. |
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| As I said, Balzac wrote about an epoch that is curiously like our own. |
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| Balzac was the great novelist of money, social climbing, and power. |
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| But conservatives think liberals and Balzac are seditious and crazy. |
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| Balzac would have done well here, but I was more indulgent, thinking of things like the impending death of the bourgeoisie, and of pasts these fiftyish people all bore inside. |
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| The whole of life did not consist in going to bed with a woman, he thought, returning to Scott and Balzac, to the English novel and the French novel. |
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