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The Reliability of Balzac's Correspondance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

Walter Scott Hastings
Walter Scott Hastings*
Affiliation:
Princeton University
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Comment and Criticism
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PMLA , Volume 45 , Issue 3 , September 1930 , pp. 950 - 954
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1930

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References

1 “The Correspondance of Honoré de Balzac: Its Significance and Its Unreliability,” PMLA XLIV (Dec. 1929), 1159-1178.

2 “It has not been possible, of course, to compare all the letters … . with transcripts of the original manuscripts,” p. 1167.

3 Balzac ignoré, p. 244.

4 Les Variantes de Madame Hanska, “La Revue bleue,” Oct. 19 and 26, 1912.

5 P. 1170.

6 L'Intermédiaire des chercheurs et curieux, Vol. LIV, Nov. 20, 1906, col. 731-2.

7 Les Débuts littéraires d'Honoré de Balzac, p. 28, note.

8 Cromwell, tragédie en 5 actes et en vers …, avant-propos, introduction et notes par Walter Scott Hastings. Princeton University Press, 1925.

9 Op. cit., p. 233.

10 Un Roman d'amour, p. 78.

11 P. 1169, note 48.

12 P. 157.

13 Un Roman d'amour, p. 78, note.

14 “Balzac … . did not hesitate to fib about any subject that really touched him… . .” (P. 1171).

15 P. 1175.