Balzac. Lonely stepson of Paris. Sencha V.N.

“This is not a rabla, not Voltaire, not Hoffmann; This is Balzac, ”the magazine“ Revue des Deux Mondes ”wrote during the life of the French novelist. Years passed, but nothing has changed: Balzakovskaya prose has become even more relevant. Someone called Balzac a "treasure of world literature", someone-"an invaluable storehouse of the mind." "The brightest meteor." "Diamond of literature." It's like that. True, it should be added: the great French writer is much larger, wider and more grandiose more than all the epithets collected together.

about Balzak, hundreds of books and thousands of research were written. And this further increases the significance of the book that you, dear reader, hold in your hands. The uniqueness of the new work of the writer Viktor Senchi is that for the first time in recent years, a fictionalized biography of Balzac, created by a Russian -speaking author, is published. It is biography, but by no means the study of the creative heritage of the novelist. The breadth of the historical material stated by the author, the reflection of the social characteristics characteristic of France of the 19th century, make the narrative even more exciting and significant. That is why the biography of the great Frenchman in a new presentation, written in a vivid and living language, turned out to be interesting, exciting and in many ways instructive.

The author’s book allows you to look at the hero not only as a brilliant master of the pen, but also as an enterprise businessman, treasure hunter, traveler, loving ladies' saint and unsuccessful politician. And also - an ordinary person, with his habits, weaknesses and disadvantages, but still brilliant. But no matter how Honore de Balzac looks in different situations, he is always magnificent!