frlit1-7, Exercise 1: Balzac, Flaubert and Zola

Model answer:

Balzac used a connected cycle of novels, La Comedie humaine, to portray the whole of society, with money, ambition and class as his subject. Flaubert used a careful, detached style and the search for the exact word, and wrote about provincial life and disappointed dreams. Zola treated the novel as an experiment based on research, and wrote about work, heredity, poverty and power.

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