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巴尔扎克，举世公认的现实主义小说艺术大师他是一位力量惊人，从不疲倦的工作者，经夯所有伟大都不能避免的那种充满风暴和斗争的生活。
他用如橼之笔征服了世界，他给人世间创造第二个完美的天地，无与伦妇的《人间喜剧》在人类文化历史上树起了一座划时代的丰碑把现实主义文学推上了一新高峰，在最伟大的人物中间，他是一第的一个在最优秀的人物中间，他是出类拔萃的一个他的理壮丽的、独特的，成就是永远说不尽的。他是《人间喜剧》诸多人物中最奇特、最有趣、最浪漫，也最富有诗意的一个。

茨威格，梦一般的音乐之都维也纳蕴育出的文学天才，一位深邃的世界主义者与和平主义者。用生命去感知并促进个体之间、民族之间的相互理解，对求知世界、个人命运充满无尽好奇与创作的激情。心理分析的方法悄无声息地融入他的作品中，探寻人类内心深处跌宕多变的激情，关照个体的痛苦与顽强不息的挣扎。这使得他的作品跨趣了国别与民族的界限，在世界各地的读者心中点燃人性之光，并成为他们汲取人生哲思的无尽源泉，他用自身的生命与苦难时代抗争的不屈姿态也永远留在了纷繁的历史记忆之中。

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BOOK ONB：Youtb and Early Efforts
1、Childhood Tragedy
2、Praemature Questioning of Destiny
3、The Novel Manufactory of Horace de Saint Aubin & Co.
4、Madame de Berny
5、Business Interlude
6、Balzac and Napoleon
BOOK TWO：Balzal at Work
7、The Man of Thirty
8、Black Coffee
9、The Duchesse de Casties
10、Balzac Discovers His Secret
BOOK THREE：Tbe Novel of Balzal’s Life
11、The Unknown
12、Geneva
13、Farewell in Vienna
BOOK FOUR：Splendor and Misery of Balzac the Noelist
14、A Year of Disasters
15、The Contessa Guidoboni-Visconti
16、The Second Italian Journey
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BOOK FIVE：The Autbor of La comeie bumaine
BOOK SIX：Fulfillment and Finale
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scribbling, and it was the worst kind of prostitution since it was practiced cold-bloodedly and solely with a view to making money quickly. He may, to begin with, have been swayed only by impatience to achieve his freedom, but once he had sunk deep enough and become used to easy profits, the descent grew steeper and steeper. He allowed his talents to be misused for lesser rewards, despite the
large earnings he drew from his novels, and there was no literaryiniquity that he could not stomach. He was a harlot serving simul-taneously two or three literary pimps. Even when his Cbouans and La peaude chagrin made him an outstanding figure in French litera- ture, he continued--like a married woman secretly visiting a maison de rendezvous to earn some pin-money--to frequent his former low haunts and degrade the famous Honore de Balzac to the status of a cheap hack for the sake of a few hundred francs. Today, when his cloak of anonymity has become somewhat threadbare, we know that Balzac shrank from no literary sin. He patched other men's novels with scraps of his own and barefacedly stole other writers' plots and
situations for his own works. With adroit impudence he undertook every kind of literary tailoring, in which the purloined material was pressed, lengthened, tamed, dyed, and modernized. He supplied any- thing for which there was a demand, whethee in the way of philos- ophy, politics, or causeries, always ready to meet his client's wishes, a brisk, skillful, unscrupulous workman, on call at any time and pre- pared to switch over to the production of any article that happened to be in fashion.
It is pathetic to think of the kind of people with whom he asso- dated in these dark years. He was the greatest storyteller of his age, yet he was nothing but the hireling of the scabbiest hole-and-comer publishers and wholesale book-hawkers of Paris. All this because he lacked self-confidence and was blind to his real destiny. It must forever remai
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