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20269906 No.20269906 [Reply] [Original]

Why does nobody read Balzac anymore?

>> No.20269926

>>20269906
ballsack

>> No.20269936

Sarrasine. read it. now

>> No.20269940

>>20269936
>it's a trap
Now I see

>> No.20269949

>>20269940
I love that story because the same thing literally happened to me

>> No.20269960
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>>20269906
I honored de Balzac once
Ruined my life forever

>> No.20269987

>>20269960
Please elaborate friend

>> No.20270129

>>20269906
ballsack

>> No.20270142
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>>20269906
Balzac may get a pop revivial from the recent Lost Illusions movie if it becomes a Netflix or Tiktok meme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fc68AURE-O0

Good film imo.

>> No.20271569

>>20269987
Watch Les 400 coups.

>> No.20271576
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>> No.20271618

for one, he wrote lots of stuff so people don't know where to begin, there isn't much consensus on him besides pere goriot being his most famous work.
another things is people outside frogland find him obsolete compared to all the french authors who came after him so they just skip him and read hugo, flaubert, proust, etc.
lots of people here will tell you to trash him and read zola instead

personally i think he's a master and very comfy, i've yet to read something bad or worthless from him. it's nice always having a handy balzac story to dive into.

>> No.20271637

Because he's a freemason dog and J.K. Huysmans is the writer he wishes he could've been but didn't have the capacity

>> No.20271644

>>20269906
I always consider Balzac and Zola to be formulaic writers. They have Goriot and Germinal respectively, but most of their massive output is just okay, but still worth reading.

>> No.20271769

>>20269906
Is there a balzac reading chart?

>> No.20271770

Fuck learning French is taking too long I can't read shit yet

>> No.20271794

>>20269960
JEJ

>> No.20271888

>>20271770
Just run it through google translate, there's option for whole document. It won't be 100% accurate, some results can be pure comedy, but it will be about the same as if you studied the language at home for reading alone.

>> No.20271980

>>20269906
Histoire des Treize.
Read that shit.

>> No.20272460

>>20271637
Who isn't a freemason and is also a published author before the 20th century? I'd really like to know.

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>>20269926
>>20270129

>> No.20272519

>>20271576
lol BALLS

>> No.20273223

>>20269906
They don't.

>> No.20273226

Imagine your name being ballsacks haha