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The Metaphysics of Balzac

by Ursula Gestefeld

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Contents - Preface - Introduction - The Magic Skin - Louis Lambert - Seraphita

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Introduction

Honoré de Balzac, born in 1799 and dying in 1858, was one of the giants of French literature. Working for many years in poverty and obscurity, he attained, finally, both fortune and renown. His was on of the few, perhaps too few, instances of appreciation of an author and his work, while the worker is still in the world: the rule of "stones for the living, palms for the dead" being more universally applicable.

And yet, the critical student of 1839, the searcher, rather than the reader, is probably more appreciative of Balzac's work, than the average reader of 1832. Fiction without, philosophy within. Such is the nature of his chief works, which read merely as novels, fail to yield their strength.

To-day the seeker for hidden treasure, the one who views the story, admirable though it may be, as the surface ore indicative of the richer deposit below, finds a mine of knowledge that richly repays the working; and that proves that Balzac had a steady controlling purpose of which he never lost sight; a purpose stated by the mouth of Louis Lambert, who is made to say, "I sought the deduction of a general

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