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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Replying to @lane_lane_lane
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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Replying to @DominoComics @lane_lane_lane
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 was really into balzac and supposedly planned a study into his works that he wanted to complete after capital
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I'd guess it's that Balzac is a way angrier critic of the middle classes than Zola could ever be? there's funny zola/balzac gossip in the Goncourt journals, bitching about how Zola needed to be surrounded by snacks in order to write and stuff like that
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Replying to @DominoComics @lane_lane_lane and
actually replace angrier with precise, that's closer to it
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re: marx and balzac is i feel balzac does a great job talking about technology in detail and finance as it directs life for the emerging bourgeoise - lot of good discussion about the creation of private property and the fading aristocracy consequentially
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