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Review:
'In the introduction to his fluent translation, Howard Curtis picks out contemporary elements that Balzac drew on: Stendhal's short story Vanina Vanini (1829), whose heroine falls in love with a fugitive carbonaro; Romeo and Juliet; the theme of Corsican family honour in Mérimée's Mateo Falcone (1829). Balzac also exploited recollections of the Duchesse d' Abrantès and Mme de Berny for the Napoleonic background and the character of Piombo (modelled on André Campi, a former lover of Mme de Berny), and a similar drama triggered by an acte respectueux in the family of his sister Laure's husband.' --Times Literary Supplement
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A prolific writer, Honore de Balzac (1799-1850) is generally regarded, along with Gustave Flaubert, as a founding father of realism in European literature, and as one of France's greatest fiction writers.
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- PublisherKessinger Publishing, LLC
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 1169222579
- ISBN 13 9781169222571
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages72
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