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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this is probably the most pretensh thing ill ever write, but here goes: wish id wasted less time when I was younger reading a bunch of Zola and focused on Balzac instead.
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Marx and Engels would have agreed with you on this.
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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 and Engels both praised Balzac as basically their favorite novelist.
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