honor the ballsack
it's HONORED BALLSACK for you, buddy
>>24718935I was listening to some audiobooks of his on my earphones at work and it occurred to me that literary novels don't really focus on business dealings and debt and credit anymore. As if it's beneath the dignity of the novel. Yet that's half of what Balzac seems to write about.
>>24718935Why was Nietzsche such a hateful little faggot towards this guy
>>24718978because of that poor horse someone go help it DO SOMETHING
>>24718968It filters proles. I didn't have a savings account until I was 30.
>>24718978Jealousy. He knew Balzac was better than him at the one thing he was known for. It's as simple as that.Balzac could wank him under the table any day of the week.
>>24719700>>24719643faggots>>24718978When? what are you talking about? who he really didn't like (rightly) was Flaubert
>thread about how to kick the habit of masturbation almost next to a thread about a chronic masturbator who splurged both seed and words with a ceaseless discharge
>>24720139Well the thread in the middle is full of wankers too so it's a full combo
Would Colonel Chabert have been better or worse off had he honored his ballsack less?
>>24718935I love this little fella. I have only read Goriot & La Peau de Chagrin so far. But I am about to be living in France for 7 months with little spare money and much spare time. I intend to read the whole Comedy. Any recommendations on how to proceed?
>>24721730I don't know, but you should go visit his grave in Paris. The graveyard is lovely.
>>24721730Just going to copy paste my post from an earlier Balzac thread:I've read about two-thirds of it. Here's a quick ranking with some personal thoughts.>The GoodThe "trilogy": Père Goriot > Illusions perdues (Lost Illusions) > Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes (A Harlot High and Low)Eugénie GrandetLa Rabouilleuse (The Black Sheep)Cousine BetteCousin PonsLe Chef-d'œuvre inconnu (The Unknown Masterpiece)SarrasineColonel ChabertCuré de Tours (The Vicar of Tours)>The BadMany of the hastily written Scènes de la vie privée (Scenes from private life)Études analytiques (Analytical studies)>The UglyLa Femme de trente ans (A Woman of Thirty)SéraphîtaBalzac often carries a Romantic and melodramatic flair, with a focus on extreme emotions, larger-than-life characters, or dramatic moral struggles, all of which contrasts with the detached tone of true realism or naturalism.He has an interesting metaphysical streak and wrote a few works influenced by magnetism, Swedenborgian mysticism, and the paranormal.He's a master of mixing comedy and tragedy, but can get overly pathétique. He's at his worst when sentimentality, cruelty, or mysticism override any sense of social commentary and structure.Balzac is definitely a great, but one who should have concentrated his efforts on what he does best—talking about things he failed at during his life. Writing (before the famous cycle), journalism, printing, publishing, bureaucracy, politics, business in general. It might have saved him from an early grave as well.For me personally, Lost Illusions was the book that made daily reading a habit.
>>24721730>>24722483Oh and check out Balzac as He Should Be Read by William Hobart Royce. There you'll find the author's suggested reading order, as well as Balzac's.
alexander dumb ass
>>24722483Just readimg Lost Illusions, i am a great fan of his and read most of his "good" works, do you think his works can be taken as education in ways of society, or is he just a good late romantic writer that deals with impressive but completely imagined achivements
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