Bret Easton Ellis vs. Honoré de Balzac
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Bret Easton Ellis
1964 – present
Bret Easton Ellis is an American author and screenwriter. Ellis was one of the Literary Brat Pack and is a self-proclaimed satirist whose trademark technique as a writer is the expression of extreme acts and opinions in an affectless style. His novels often share recurring characters.
"...and it's a story that might bore you but you don't have to listen, she told me, because she always knew it was going to be like that, and it was, she thinks,…"
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…"
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