Balzac, A Critical Study

by Hippolyte Taine

A translation by Lorenzo O'Rourke of a biographical and critical study of the greatest of novelists by the most eminent of modern critics. Included is a review of Taine's life and work. Taine discusses Balzac's life and character, his genius, his characters, philosophy, and style.

240 pages, Library Binding

First published January 1, 1865

About the author

Hippolyte Adolphe Taine was a French philosopher, critic and historian. He was the chief theoretical influence of French naturalism, a major proponent of sociological positivism and one of the first practitioners of historicist criticism. Literary historicism as a critical movement has been said to originate with him.[1] Taine is particularly remembered for his three-pronged approach to the contextual study of a work of art, based on the aspects of what he called "race, milieu, and moment".

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Hippolyte Adolphe Taine était un historien, philosophe et critique littéraire français.