Balzac

GPTKB entity

Statements (59)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instance_of gptkb:French_literature
gptkbp:adaptations gptkb:Film_adaptations
Television adaptations
Theatre adaptations
gptkbp:associated_with gptkb:Realism
gptkb:Romanticism
gptkbp:awards gptkb:Legion_of_Honour
gptkbp:birth_date May 20, 1799
gptkbp:born_in gptkb:Tours,_France
gptkbp:children gptkb:Eugène_Balzac
gptkbp:death_date August 18, 1850
gptkbp:died_in gptkb:Paris,_France
gptkbp:famous_quote " Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils."
" A man is a product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes."
" Behind every great fortune there is a crime."
" The more one judges, the less one loves."
" The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a great crime."
gptkbp:full_name gptkb:Honoré_de_Balzac
gptkbp:genre Literary realism
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Balzac
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:David_Foster_Wallace
gptkb:Gustave_Flaubert
gptkb:Philip_Roth
gptkb:Don_De_Lillo
gptkb:Ian_Mc_Ewan
gptkb:Mario_Vargas_Llosa
gptkb:F._Scott_Fitzgerald
gptkb:Henry_James
gptkb:James_Joyce
gptkb:Julian_Barnes
gptkb:Kazuo_Ishiguro
gptkb:Marcel_Proust
gptkb:Virginia_Woolf
gptkb:Zadie_Smith
gptkb:Charles_Dickens
gptkb:Chimamanda_Ngozi_Adichie
gptkb:Salman_Rushdie
gptkb:T._S._Eliot
gptkb:William_Faulkner
gptkb:Gabriel_García_Márquez
gptkbp:influenced_artists gptkb:French_literature
Modern literature
gptkbp:influenced_by gptkb:Stendhal
gptkb:Honoré_de_Balzac
gptkb:Jean-Jacques_Rousseau
gptkbp:known_for Social commentary
Exploration of human nature
Detailed character studies
gptkbp:language gptkb:French
gptkbp:nationality gptkb:French
gptkbp:notable_work gptkb:The_Human_Comedy
gptkb:Eugénie_Grandet
gptkb:Lost_Illusions
gptkbp:occupation gptkb:Writer
gptkbp:spouse gptkb:Eve_Hanska
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Thérèse_Raquin
gptkb:Indre-et-Loire
gptkb:George_Sands
gptkbp:bfsLayer 5