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Great writing of Mr Balzac about coffee. According to research he came out as a man of extremes - "Overweight, workaholic, and a caffeine abuser, Honoré de Bal
by ballsyballsman 7y ago
Great writing of Mr Balzac about coffee.
According to research he came out as a man of extremes - "Overweight, workaholic, and a caffeine abuser, Honoré de Balzac lived a life of excess. He prematurely died at the age of 51 owing to gangrene associated with congestive heart failure."
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27638234 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27638234
- bertil 7y agoNot just extremes in what he swallowed: he’s notorious for “La Comédie Humaine” [0] his dozens of novels are actually set in the same fictional world, with consistent characters across decades. You can take excerpts from several books to tell a completely original story. It’s the most detailed world ever described —from individual thoughts to gruesome details about poverty, up to overarching consequences of the industrial revolution on the remaining aristocracy. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Com%C3%A9die_humaine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Com%C3%A9die_humaine
- redwall_hp 7y agoThat sounds a lot like the basic idea behind Terry Pratchett's Discworld.
- bertil 7y agoIt is, although more XIXth-Century realism, so darker: someone who was drinking at a bar reappears as a ruined alcoholic later. Someone who got rich suddenly turned mean. A lot of the speculation on the forty-something unfinished books are based on those trajectories.