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La Com?die Humaine of Honor? de Balzac Volume 41

La Com?die Humaine of Honor? de Balzac Volume 41

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General World History

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ISBN10: 1235260739
ISBN13: 9781235260735
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 108
Weight: 0.46
Height: 0.22 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 Excerpt: ... VI LITERATURE. THE PRESS. The Monograph of the Parisian Press. the Monograph Of The Parisian Press. Mme. Surville, Balzac's sister Laure, gives, in her memoir of him, the following account of when and why this Monograph was written. His lawsuit with the Revue de Paris in relation to the ' Lys dans la Vallee, ' together with the book entitled 'Illusions Perdues, ' in which he had drawn a picture of the feuilletonists, exasperated the press against him; and so bitter are literary hatreds that even his death has not yet disarmed them all. He troubled himself very little about such attacks, and he often brought us the papers or periodicals in which the worst appeared and read us the articles. ' Just see what a state of mind those fellows are in, ' he would say. 'Fire away, my dear enemies, the armour is proof: it saves advertising; your praises would leave the public indifferent, but your insults will wake it up.... Don't they howl! If I were rich, people might say I paid them. However, we must n't say a word; if they get the idea they are doing me good they are capable of holding their tongues.' We thought otherwise and the attacks troubled us. ' How silly you are to take them to heart, ' he would say. 'Can critics make my work good or bad? Let time, the great umpire, show; if these fellows are wrong the public will see it some day or other; injustice then becomes a benefit to those it has injured. Besides, these guerillas of art hit true sometimes; and by correcting the faults they point out, the work is improved, --in fact, 1 really owe them some gratitude.' ' Consequently, he would make neither remonstrances nor explanations. Once only he broke the rule of silence he had laid down for himself by writing the' Monographie de la Presse Parisienne.' This work, ...

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