Influence of

Honoré de Balzac

upon

Sources  

  • Henry Gifford. Henry James: the Drama of Discrimination, in The Pelican Guide to English Literature, 7.  
  • Agostino Lombardo. Prefazione, in La panchina della desolazione e altri racconti di Henry James. Nuovo Portico Bompiani(1980).  
  • Infloox.

Notes

Notes

Balzac was James's earliest model and master of literary realism. Henry James "coveted the 'deep, rich english tone' of George Eliot and the density of Balzac's France…" (Gifford) Especially in his earlier literary phase, he "escaped with ardour, technically, in the great shade of Balzac…" (translated from Lombardo).

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