Short biography of Balzac

Honore de Balzac, brief biography. French writer-novelist, considered the father of a naturalistic novel. Honore de Balzac was born on May 20 in the city of Tour France. Honore de Balzac - Bernar Francois Balssa, in some sources, the surname Waltz - a peasant who got rich during the revolution on the buying and selling confiscated noble lands, and later became an assistant to the mayor of the city, is indicated in some sources.

Having entered the service of military supply and being among the officials, he changed his "native" surname, considering it the plebeian. At the turn of the x Honore Balzac’s mother was 30 years younger than his father, which, partly, was the reason for her cheating: the father of the younger brother Honore - Henri - was the owner of the castle. In the years, Honore studied at the college of the city of Wandom; In - in the Parisian school of law, serving at the same time as a clerk in the notary.

The father sought to prepare his son for lawyer activity, but Honore decided to become a poet. At the family council, it was decided to give him two years to fulfill a dream. Honore de Balzac writes the drama "Cromwell", but the newly convened family council recognizes the work useless and the young man refuse material assistance.

This was followed by a strip of material hardships. The literary career of Balzac began approximately from a year, when he began to print action -packed novels under various pseudonyms and composed the moral -descriptive "codes" of secular behavior. Later, some of the first novels came out under the pseudonym of Orass de Saint-Oben. The period of anonymous work ended in the year after the publication of the novel "Shuana, or Brittany in the year." With the general name "scenes of private life" novels from modern French life began to be published.

The writer decides to connect the common heroes already written from the year and future works, uniting them into the epic, later called the "human comedy" La Comedie Humaine. Twice, the novelist tried to make a political career, nominating his candidacy to the Chamber of Deputies in a year, but did not pass both times. In January, he failed in elections to the French Academy. From the year, the correspondence of Balzak with the Polish aristocrat E.

Ganskoy, who lived in Russia, began. In the year, the writer traveled to her in St. Petersburg, and in and - to Ukraine. The official marriage with E. Ganskaya was concluded 5 months before the death of Honore de Balzac, who died on August 18 in Paris. The bibliography of the work of Honore de Balzac among the works of Honore de Balzac - stories, novels, philosophical sketches, novels, novels, plays published 5 plays; About 90 works made up the epic "Human Comedy" La Comedie Humaine.