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The Human Comedy: Selected Stories
by

Honoré de Balzac,

Linda Asher (Translator),

Carol Cosman (Translator),

Jordan Stump (Translator),

Peter Brooks (Editor)

Marco Bermudez's review

Mar 24, 2022

it was amazing

Crazy how much Balzac has influenced since his untimely death; most noticeably Dostoyevsky and Dickens, and in turn, everyone else that has come after them. Even Engels said that he learned more from Balzac than anyone else.

Aim to aspire to his work ethic and methods. I want to wake up at 1 in the morning and drink 8 coffees and have novels or scripts done by breakfast.

And to those who say he’s a bad writer, that he overwrites or uses terrible vocabulary: stop. Get help. I will agree that his structuring and endings needed help. Ended too quickly or not developed enough.

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