Model
Digital Document
Publisher
Florida Atlantic University
Description
As one of the founders of the realist novel, Balzac is praised for
having invented returning characters and interwoven chronologies that
serve to challenge the decadent social mores of his time, but critical
discussions of Balzacs's work continue to neglect his use of satire in
social criticism. Different modes of satire occure in his LePere Goriot
(1835), Le Bat de Sceaux (1829), Gobseck (1830), La Maison
Nucingen (1837), Le Depute dArcis (1847), and La Femme
abandonnee (1822), which together attest that Balzac achieves his
ambition to become both the Rabelais and the Moliere of his era.
having invented returning characters and interwoven chronologies that
serve to challenge the decadent social mores of his time, but critical
discussions of Balzacs's work continue to neglect his use of satire in
social criticism. Different modes of satire occure in his LePere Goriot
(1835), Le Bat de Sceaux (1829), Gobseck (1830), La Maison
Nucingen (1837), Le Depute dArcis (1847), and La Femme
abandonnee (1822), which together attest that Balzac achieves his
ambition to become both the Rabelais and the Moliere of his era.
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