Balzac anon here, if anyone cares to remember. So I went through

>>8482608
The word "love" sure seems to get thrown around a lot these days.

>>8482612
How do you mean

>>8482617
translation, he thinks they look like shit

>>8482643
they do, but the text is preserved. the covers are very worn, but theyre over one hundred years old, what could anyone expect?

>>8482645
I'm just the messenger. I don't have any insight to what these books are, sorry.

>>8482612
Yes it's the tumblrization of the new medium of modern culture. Tumblr, Liberal, Rights, Freedom, etc.

>>8482608

Is it the complete works?

What have you read so far?

>>8482690
It is the complete works. I have started Father Goriot inbetween chapters of a Dostoevsky novel

>>8482694

I read Pere Goriot in translation and really liked it, I hope you do too. What persuaded you to get all of Balzac without having read a bunch of his works already? And what Dostoevsky are you reading?

>>8482717
Demons currently.

I've been reading a biography on Dostoevsky and in it are a few of his letters. He said that Balzac's chatacters were from "the universal mind". I think I can trust Dostoevsky's opinion. I had a slight interest before, but that cemented it. Once I did some reading on Balzac I saw he had written something like 90 novels, I figured it would be a fun project to try and read them all.

I also prefer to have one translator all the way through, this seemed the only way.

try to make a thread about each book you finish op

>>8482741
For you, I will try.

>>8482746
aren't you the sweetest