巴尔札克(1799—1850)是法国十九世纪伟大的批判现实主义作家,在世界文学史上享有很高的声誉。他的作品深刻而又广泛地反映了十九世纪上半期法国的社会历史与生活风貌。恩格斯称他为“现实主义大师”,说他的作品“为我们提供了一部法国‘社会’特别是巴黎‘上流社会’的卓越的现实主义历史”。奥瑙利·德·巴尔札克出生于法国杜尔城一个中等资产阶级家庭里。父亲原是一个农 Balzac (1799-1850), a great French critical realist writer of the 19th century, enjoys a high reputation in the history of world literature. His work profoundly and extensively reflects the social history and life style of France in the first half of the nineteenth century. Engels described him as a “master of realism” and said that his work “provides us with a remarkable realistic history of the French society, especially the upper class in Paris.” Onnau de Balzac was born in a middle-class bourgeois family in the French city of Dour. Father was originally a peasant