Story about Balzac / Balzac: A Life of Passion / 巴尔扎克传 / 巴尔扎克王子传奇 / 巴尔扎克激情的一生
Honoré de Balzac was a man who lived to write. His life was a hard, perman...
Honoré de Balzac was a man who lived to write. His life was a hard, permanent struggle, from his cold relationhip with his mother who was unable to give him the love he needed, to his unuccessful attempts to make money out of printing and publishing books. Balzac never gives up, however - even though his dissolute lifestyle keeps landing him in trouble with his creditor. To finally gain acclaim for his works and to earn enough money to survive, Balzac works like a man possessed, day and night, to the brink of exhaustion, drinking liter upon liter of coffee to keep himself awake. The passionate author also tends to go to excess in affair of the heart - he has several woman friends at the same time, all of them very different from each other. They include the kind, caring and elderly Madame de Berny, and the egotistical, ambitious Laure d'Abrantès, who introduces Balzac to the salon of upper-class society. Balzac's heart belong to just one peron alone, however: Eve Hanka, a ...
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