33 letters found
- 162 To Theo van Gogh. Brussels, January 1881.
- in note 2:
...ry in Histoire des treize (1834-1835) by Honoré de Balzac. He is the leader of a secret society cal...
- in translation:
...d women, type of old man (‘Ferragus’, from Balzac’s L’histoire des treize) &c. I’m sending ...
- 170 To Theo van Gogh. Etten, Friday, 5 August 1881.
- in note 9:
The nickname is taken from Balzac’s foreword to La cousine Bette (1846), addressed to Don Michele A...
- in note 7:
Honoré de Balzac’s long novel Illusions perdues (1837) is part of the cycle La comédie humaine. T...
- in note 12:
...econdly, considering the earlier references to Balzac in this letter, to his Petites misères de la v...
- in translation:
If Illusions perdues by Balzac is too long for you (2 volumes), start with Le père Goriot, 1 volume ...
- 174 To Anthon van Rappard. Etten, Wednesday, 12 October 1881.
- in note 4:
Thackeray spoke slightingly of Honoré de Balzac several times in his writings. See W.C.D. Pacey, ‘...
- in translation:
...ray himself adopted a similar attitude towards Balzac, and went even further, I believe, but that doe...
- 184 To Anthon van Rappard. Etten, Saturday, 12 November 1881.
- in note 5:
...the novels in the cycle La comédie humaine by Balzac. He is an English banker of Jewish descent and ...
- 193 To Theo van Gogh. Etten, on or about Friday, 23 December 1881.
- in translation:
...sometimes read Michelet or Balzac or Eliot, but I see completely different things...
- 196 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Tuesday, 3 January 1882.
- in note 3:
...r Tillet in La Maison Nucingen (1838) by Honoré de Balzac. See Oeuvres complètes. Paris 1879, vol ...
- 232 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, Sunday, 28 May 1882.
- in translation:
...nd Eliot and Currer Bell, and among the French Balzac, are so astonishingly ‘plastic’, if I may p...
- 250 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 23 July 1882.
- in note 10:
... also referred to Zola at that time as the new Balzac. The publisher Charpentier introduced him to hi...
- in translation:
...o have read Le ventre de Paris recently. I’ve also read Nana. Listen, Zola is actually Balzac II.
Balzac I portrays the society of 1815-1848, Zola begins where Balzac leaves off and goes on to Sedan ...
- 267 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Tuesday, 19 September 1882.
- in translation:
...htsmen forms. Just as one must read Dickens or Balzac or Zola in their entirety to know them separate...
...™s books with great admiration. I thought that Balzac stood alone, but I see that he had successors. ...
... still the smell of the days of Gavarni and of Balzac and V. Hugo in these grubby woodcuts — someth...
- in note 25:
Vincent had earlier written to Theo: ‘Zola is actually Balzac ii’: see letter 250.
- 278 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Wednesday, 1 November 1882.
- in note 15:
... the beach). He also illustrated an edition of Balzac’s Petites misères de la vie conjugale (1845)...
- 288 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 26 and Monday, 27 November 1882.
- in note 3:
...rs among the characters in the novels of Honoré de Balzac. The most important are: Joseph Bridau in...
- in translation:
...re always unfortunate with painter characters, Balzac among them (his painters are fairly uninteresti...
- 292 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 10 December 1882.
- in note 2:
...nérailles’ (chapter 19); for the scene with Balzac’s bust, see Daudet 1986-1994, vol. 2. p. 761....
- in translation:
...¨re Lachaise in the twilight while the bust of Balzac, a dark silhouette against the sky, looks down ...
- 310 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Thursday, 8 February 1883.
- in note 8:
For Balzac's Le père Goriot, see letter 170, n. 8.
- in translation:
...nd Menzel too. There are sometimes passages in Balzac and Zola – in Père Goriot, for example – i...
- 316 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Thursday, 15 February 1883.
- in note 4:
Honoré de Balzac, Petites misères de la vie conjugale (1846) consists of a number of sketches of ma...
- in translation:
...think lightly of them. If one reads carefully, Balzac’s petty vexations of married life are very, v...
...eading Eliot, Middlemarch. Eliot analyzes like Balzac or Zola, but English situations and with an Eng...
- 338 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Monday, 30 April 1883.
- in translation:
...™assommoir above all that I often think of. Tell me — how are you getting on with reading Balzac?
...that Victor Hugo analyzes in a different way from Balzac and Zola, but he sees through things too.
- 345 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Monday, 21 May 1883.
- in translation:
... that one doesn’t know writers like Dickens, Balzac, Hugo, Zola until one has more or less full kno...
- 359 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Tuesday, 3 July 1883.
- in note 7:
...els in the series La comédie humaine in which Balzac presents characters who are artists there is of...
- in translation:
What Zola has in common with Balzac is that he knows little about painting. I think two artist types ...
- 403 To Theo van Gogh. Nieuw-Amsterdam, on or about Monday, 5 November 1883.
- in translation:
...komer — not to mention Michelet, Hugo, Zola, Balzac, a host more from the more distant and more rec...
- 496 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 28 April 1885.
- in note 10:
...y Lora, known as Léon de Lora, a character in Balzac’s Les comédiens sans le savoir (1846) and Un...
- in translation:
...rewdest of landscape painters), who appears in Balzac’s Comédie humaine, could perhaps have been D...
- 550 To Theo van Gogh. Antwerp, Monday, 28 December 1885.
- in translation:
...y of the studies of women by the very great people in literature, Zola, Daudet, De Goncourt, Balzac.
- 556 To Theo van Gogh. Antwerp, on or about Friday, 29 January 1886.
- in translation:
...an credit. Look at Millet and Sensier, look at Balzac, Zola, De Goncourt. Look at Delacroix. Al...
- 565 To Theo van Gogh. Antwerp, on or about Monday, 22 February 1886.
- in translation:
The books of the present, since Balzac, say, are unlike anything written in other centuries — and b...
- 636 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Thursday, 5 July 1888.
- in note 8:
In Honoré de Balzac’s Histoire de la grandeur et de la décadence de César Birotteau (1837), the ...
- in translation:
I’m reading Balzac, César Birotteau, I’ll send it to you when I’ve finished it — I think Iâ€...
- 651 To Emile Bernard. Arles, Monday, 30 July 1888.
- in translation:
Zola and Balzac, as painters of a society, of reality as a whole, arouse rare artistic emotions in th...
- 655 To Emile Bernard. Arles, on or about Sunday, 5 August 1888.
- in note 15:
... jamais se marier)), is a recurring refrain in Balzac’s work, notably in La cousine Bette and Illu...
- in translation:
Ah, Balzac, that great and powerful artist, already told us very well that for modern artists a certa...
- 662 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Wednesday, 15 August 1888.
- in note 5:
...ubert as his teacher; see letter 625, n. 8. For Zola as Balzac’s successor, see letter 250, n. 10.
- in translation:
...f those people, but didn’t the Flauberts and Balzacs make the Zolas and Maupassants? So here’s to...
- 672 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Saturday, 1 September 1888.
- in note 7:
The three volumes of Balzac that Van Gogh sent probably included the novel César Birotteau (1837), w...
- in translation:
...y, is stronger. I’m sending you 3 volumes of Balzac today; it’s really a bit old, etc., but the w...
- 678 To Willemien van Gogh. Arles, Sunday, 9 and about Friday, 14 September 1888.
- in translation:
...get a reasonably clear idea of the modern novel. Have you read Balzac? I’m reading him again here.
- 689 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Wednesday, 26 September 1888.
- in note 12:
...In letter 184 Van Gogh quoted a character in a Balzac novel like this, and in letter 623 he imitated ...
- 707 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Wednesday, 17 October 1888.
- in note 13:
Balzac’s Eugénie Grandet (1834) is about the miser Félix Grandet, who is consumed by a desire for...
- in translation:
...ng more consoling. At present I’ve just read Balzac’s Eugénie Grandet. The story of a miserly pe...
- 725 Paul Eugène Milliet to Vincent van Gogh. Guelma, Tuesday, 11 December 1888.
- in note 3:
...n the series ‘Oeuvres complètes’ of Honoré de Balzac, which cost ‘1 franc 25 centimes per vo...
- in translation:
...t a single book to cast my eyes over, not even Balzacs at 1 franc 2 sous each. What a hole, what a ho...
- 768 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Friday, 3 May 1889.
- in translation:
At the moment I’m reading Balzac’s Le médecin de campagne, which is really fine, in it there’s...
- in note 25:
...he novel Le médecin de campagne (1833), Honoré de Balzac expressed his own social, political and r...
- 831 To Anna van Gogh-Carbentus. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Monday, 23 December 1889.
- in note 1:
...ling madness feature in many French novels, by Balzac, Zola and De Goncourt, among others. See Max Mi...
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- in 1888:
July
#Reads Balzac’s César Birotteau. Decides to re-read all of Balzac’s novels (636, 6...
... #Reads Balzac’s César Birotteau. Decides to re-read all of Balzac’s novels (636, 637).
- in 1881:
...ntë, Illusions perdues and Le père Goriot by Balzac, and the Goncourts’ Gavarni - l’homme et lâ...
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29 September 1872 and 31 July 1890
Person:
Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) French writer
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