Honoré de Balzac vs. Anton Chekhov
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Honoré de Balzac
1799 – 1850
French novelist and playwright who was a leading figure of 19th-century literary realism; he is best known for the vast series La Comédie Humaine and for essays such as Physiologie du mariage which examine social institutions like marriage.
"Nature knows nothing but solid bodies; your science deals only with combinations of surfaces. And so nature constantly gives the lie to all your laws; can you n…"
Anton Chekhov
1860 – 1904
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian playwright and short story writer, widely considered one of the greatest writers of all time. His career as a playwright produced four classics, and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics. Along with Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg, Chekhov is often referred to as one of the three seminal figures in the birth of early modernism in the theatre.
"We learn about life not from pluses alone, but from minuses as well."
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