The balzac yahoo group undertook the reading of the entire human comedy in november 2006. The year 1834 marks a climax in balzacs career, for by then he had become totally conscious of. The stories are placed in a variety of settings, with characters reappearing in multiple stories. Although some characters appear in many of the novels, they can be read in any order. The balzac plan of the comedie humaine the form in which the comedie humaine was left by its author, with the exceptions of le depute darcis incomplete and les petits bourgeois, both of which were added, some years later, by the edition definitive. Il voulait enfermer toute son epoque a travers ces. The human comedy series of novels and novellas by balzac. The original french titles are followed by their english equivalents. The first works of balzac were written without any global plan les chouans is a historical novel. The year 1834 marks a climax in balzacs career, for by then he had become totally conscious of his great plan to group his individual novels so that they would comprehend the whole of contemporary society in a diverse but unified series of books. Suggested reading order of the human comedy the balzac yahoo group undertook the reading of the entire human comedy in november 2006.
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