420 Honoré de Balzac (with Carlos Allende)
The History of Literature
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Balzac's Secrets
He decided that his destiny was to write a series of novels that, taken together, would depict all of society. He had several oe affairs with upper crust women, aristocrats, women of fashion. And love came flooding into his novels, along with all those novelistic adetives,. envy and hatred and lust and longing; marriage and money and betrayals and affairs.
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