WorkHonoré de Balzac

La Comédie humaine [The Human Comedy]

Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) · individual works cited: César Birotteau, 1837; Le Père Goriot, 1835; La Recherche de l'Absolu, 1834; Séraphîta, 1835

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Documented 1840

Journals

Selected engagements, in chronological order.

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Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this work is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist1record

V. New York

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

1810

1820

1832

1836

1844

1846

1850

1840—

Journal 1840

p103–p104

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“Balzac / French character What it was in the time of Henry IV and Francis Ist I brave as their swords gay as galliards, / Present tendencies / what means / Satanic school how passée / Meaning of all this plunge into the depths / Balzac great talent, sparks of genius.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Journal 1840." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (85); Box 5 (85).