巴尔扎克

巴爾扎克

Bā'ěrzhākè

proper noun #32,900

Meanings

1 Honoré de Balzac, French novelist
2 author of La Comédie humaine (《人间喜剧》)

About Honoré de Balzac

1799–1850 · 作家 writer

French novelist whose cycle of about 90 novels and stories, 人间喜剧 (The Human Comedy), portrays French society after Napoleon. Chinese students read 欧也妮·葛朗台 (Eugénie Grandet) and 高老头 (Père Goriot).

Also called 奥诺雷·德·巴尔扎克

Characters

Examples

HSK 3

我最近在读巴尔扎克的《高老头》。

Wǒ zuìjìn zài dú Bā'ěrzhākè de 《 Gāo Lǎotóu 》.

I'm currently reading Balzac's Père Goriot.

HSK 7-9

巴尔扎克是十九世纪法国现实主义文学的代表。

Bā'ěrzhākè shì shíjiǔ shìjì Fǎguó xiànshízhǔyì wénxué de dàibiǎo.

Balzac is a leading figure of 19th-century French realist literature.

Tips

culture

Old Grandet, the father in 欧也妮·葛朗台, is counted in China among the 四大吝啬鬼, the 'four great misers' of world literature, with Shylock, Molière's Harpagon and Gogol's Plyushkin.

memory

Four characters: 巴 gives Ba, 尔 the l, 扎 za and 克 the final c. 尔 is the usual character for an l or r with no vowel after it, as in 比尔 (Bill) and 尼尔 (Neil).

Stroke Order

巴 bā

尔 ěr

扎 zhā

克 kè