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|  Honore de Balzac |
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| Whatever Balzac's claims on our interest as one of the great European writers -- the founder of the modern novel -- he was also a lover, businessman, political campaigner, tourist, treasure-hunter, inventor, con-man and interior decorator who participated in the age he described with a fullness and energy that make him an excellent subject for biography. Beyond his study walls he was not, like most of us, a straw careering down life's stream; Balzac was a mechanical dredger that carved out its own river-bed as it went along, and the events of his life are, to an unusual degree, expressions of a personality. |
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