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It is also noteworthy, as lying almost entirely outside the general scheme of the Comedie Humaine as far as personages go. The book is as isolated as its scene and subject I might have added, as its own beauty, which is singular and unique, nor wholly easy to give a critical account of.
One might almost say that the whole of the Comedie Humaine suggested things to its future panegyrist, who wrote his greatest novel in the years consecutive to Balzac's death. Of course, Hugo's borrowings, being those of a man of genius, were not made use of servilely. Like Shakespeare and Moliere, the author of the Miserables metamorphosed and enhanced what he took.
James and Buckingham made use of him when they wanted. But they would have been very different in their measures and their statesmanship if they had listened to him. Mirabeau said, what of course had been said before him, "On ne vaut, dans la partie exécutive de la vie humaine, que par le caractère."
In 1842 the name "La Comedie Humaine" was after much consideration given to the whole structure, and in the preface he explains this title by saying: "The vastness of a plan which includes Society's history and criticism, the analysis of its evils, the discussion of its principles, justifies me, I think, in giving to my work the name under which it is appearing to-day 'The Human Comedy. Pretentious, is it?
Il n'est jamais permis de deteriorer une ame humaine pour l'avantage des autres, ni de faire un scelerat pour le service des honnetes gens. As the reader approaches the termination of this narrative, and looks back upon the many scenes he has passed, perhaps, in the mimic representation of human life, he may find no unfaithful resemblance to the true.
He turned to Mary with a gesture of his outstretched hands: "There, you see! I brought it on myself." "You are brutal! You are without feeling you are ridiculous you " she stormed, chokingly. And in face of this he became reasoning, philosophical. "Yes, I admit that it is all ridiculous, even to farce, this little comédie humaine.
We may be grateful to Hetzel for this advice, which Balzac evidently followed; as the preface is written in a quiet and modest tone unusual with him, and he follows Hetzel's counsel, and gives a concise summary of his intention in writing the "Comedie Humaine."
Not only does variability appear to be induced in man and the lower animals by the same general causes, but in both the same parts of the body are affected in a closely analogous manner. This has been proved in such full detail by Godron and Quatrefages, that I need here only refer to their works. Godron, 'De l'Espece, 1859, tom. ii. livre 3. Quatrefages, 'Unite de l'Espece Humaine, 1861. 'Hist.
I am sure that the reader of short stories will find them as fascinating as any volume of prose published this year, and the sum of all these poems is an English Comédie Humaine which portrays every type of English labor in rich imaginative speech.
Why has he not lifted up his voice? He, the book clerk, that lives among countless volumes of confessions! Whose daily task is to wrestle hour by hour with a living Comedie Humaine! Has the constant spectacle of so many books been astringent in its effect upon any latent creative impulse? Or has he been dumb in the colloquial sense, forsooth; a figure like Mr.
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