reading a cool Balzac book where the hero is a reactionary monarchist who is learning how to transport his soul across time and space under the tutelage of his saint like adopted daughter, while his money obsessed middle class relatives plot his destruction.
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... really? Why? Zola was bourgeois centrist/liberal, but his aesthetic of the heroic marginalized & alienated working class is compelling, while Balzac's overdescriptory style is, uh, not especially masses-friendly.
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marx was really into balzac and supposedly planned a study into his works that he wanted to complete after capital
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