what is wrong with this guy?? I literally have to skip half the paragraphs because he can't stop describing the walls like nigger what is wrong with you
All 19th century literature is like that. You're just a zoom zoom and have the attention span of a fly.
I still dont think he killed those 33 boys
I don't know, even as a young twerp I found Balzac amusing and entertaining. Some of the books I read as an adolescent, like Ulysses, I sort of pretended to like, but didn't understand until later on. Balzac however was as eminently readable, clear yet nuanced, and funny then as he is now.
>>24843933Are failed suicide attempts the key to success?
>>24843933>he can't stop describing the wallsAnd it's pure cinema when he does. You can learn so much from this gentleman and from Flaubert.
ballsack
>>24843943>>24843947>>24843983>>24843988>>24843989Stop reading fat authors.If a man lacks self-respect to the extent of allowing his body to grow fat, then whatever he has to say is rendered altogether worthless and must be dismissed.
>visualizationletkekked
>>24843995>Stop reading fat authors.Stopped reading your post
>>24843995Nope. The Big Sack is just that good. He gives us working-class men hope that on writing ability alone, we too can impress and enter relations with a Polish noblewomam.
>>24843995Given the quality and sheer breadth of his literary output, I'd be surprised if he ever left his desk. He made the right choice, or at least it was a choice that benefited us, the /lit/erary public. You could say it was worth the weight.
>>24843933Link to work? I wanna read. Or just the title will suffice
>>24844019Start with GoriotThen Google “Human Comedy”I’m sure there’s a chart on the wiki
>>24844024Thanks. I will determine the quality of the wall passages and report back
>>24844019OP here, I am reading thishttps://www.gutenberg.org/files/1481/1481-h/1481-h.htm#link2HCH0004
>>24844038The beginning of Goriot begins with a description of Madame Vaquer’s lodging house. I’ll admit that I nearly got filtered by it, but once the plot gets going it becomes an immensely pleasurable read.
>>24843995Balzac is the exception to the physiognomy rule. He's not my favorite, but he's undeniably one of the greatest writers of all time. I'm actually in awe of how consistently good he is despite his huge body of work. Man was born to write.
>>24843995Silence, thincel. *farts aggressively at you*
>>24843933>I literally have to skip half the paragraphs because he can't stop describing the walls I wrote a post about this in a recent Writing General thread.
He was overdosing on caffeine as often as possible. Look up the essay he wrote and you'll realize he was tweaked into infinity. If he had had access to cocaine at the time, he would have probably written twice as much.
>>24844789*wrote on coffee
>>24843933He was paid for every line he wrote. He was pre pebulished in journals before the book was released. The lengthy descriptions were there just to maximise profit.
I just don't care so much about French historical novels.And I read too slowly to get through his massive series.But I am open to recommendation anyway.
>>24843933we don't say that word here
>>24843943>it's meant to be shitty on purposelol
I wish there were an edition with illustrations I involuntarily start visualising the scenes but I know my visualisations are likely to be inaccurate so I become uncomfortable Having an edition which shows what Balzac himself was likely visualising would help a nlot
>>24844847it doesnt matterwat matters is howtha underlying mysteriesr universal among us& we can tap in2those aspectsno matter wut about tharest of thadetails
>>24843933Your brain has been cookes by your algorithm. Honour my ballsack, zoomer.
>>24844302Possibly the most based man to have ever lived, full stop.
>>24843995>t. Socrates
>>24843933He wrote like 50 novels. Quantity over qualityI guess.
>>24844774We will come up with crazy theories all day if we are scared of admitting the most obvious but controversial one: they were worse writers back then.
>>24844001Kek
>>24843933Wow, half a paragraph, what a pain
>>24844832>historicalPeople from the 19th century lived in the 19th century, as surprising as it sounds
>>24846667Fair enough, but I am still not too eager to read about 19th c. France. And the sheer volume of this guy's works is still paralyzing.Does he have some really great short works?I have certainly read something short from him, as a child, but I cannot remember anything.>>24844007Anything that relates more clearly to modern life?I feel like sticking to Montaigne, because he is quite universal to read.
>>24844001kek
>>24846934Doesn't everyone start with Le père Goriot?
>>24846934Here's something that might keep you companyhttps://balzacbooks.wordpress.com/suggested-reading-order-of-the-human-comedy/I found this website when I too was struggling with where to start with Balzac
>>24843995There‘s a bit of ambiguous space between big in terms of structure versus plain obese but I think Balzac inclines more toward the former (which is why he‘s a good writer.)
>>24847120I started with Lost Illusions because my mother had it on her shelf.
>Anything that relates more clearly to modern life?
>>24847624Oh it's supposed to be read after Goriot
>>24843933old timey authors were paid by the word which explains why their writing is so verbose
