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talk about Balzak a tremendous alcoholic
an encyclopedic thinker and a coffee of
Fado in short ambition
personified imagine yourself struggling
to understand a complicated situation in
your life we trying to figure out what
exactly is the problem we trying to
decide where to look so that you could
understand what is going on whether it
be a family problem or perhaps a
political situation in your country
whatever it may be it is a natural human
tendency that we want to unify our
thoughts and find a principle under
which everything becomes clearer
everything becomes comprehensible in
such a scenario we must go nowhere but
to Balzac he will equip you with a sharp
WID that could slice through the
illusory excuses and allow you to look
at the heart of the problem Balzak drank
around 50 cups of coffee a day people
make a lot of set dire and fun of this
fact without probing into the real
reason why he did so he had taken upon
himself to study human nature inside out
in all its aspects under every condition
possible whether it be poverty affluence
political corruption you name it he was
producing a classic novel after almost
every 3 months consecutively for 20
years from around 1828 to 1848 all of
these novels were compiled under one of
the most ambitious literary project ever
taken by a writer L men there are in
total 90 novels in laedi human which
present to us more than 3,000 characters
Balzac’s aim was to twist and turn Human
Nature by putting it under various
conditions and demonstrate to us its
richness and depth in as much variety as
possible in as much detail as possible
taking up such a mammoth of a task
requires constant energy perseverance
and determination which obviously comes
from 50 cups of coffee each
morning it would be interesting to look
at the relationship between literary
output and coffee consumption because it
is not just Balzak who had this weird
habit of drinking insane amount of
coffee there are other thinkers like him
in terms of literary production who had
the same kind of obsession for coffee
for example Kore and Vol that come
straight to mind as one think of the big
names anyways enough of coffee let’s get
to the serious
stuff firstly the name LOM human has an
ironic reference to Dante’s Divine
Comedy in Dante’s times people were
habituated to look at the world as a
stage where God had the final say he was
an active agent who intervened in human
actions and decisions which required a
Divine view of things to comprehend
reality in the 19th century the Divine
model of understanding the world was
overtaken by a social critic or in other
words a writer who is the god of lamid
it is certainly not Dante’s God it is
Balzak himself every character in lomu
man is at the mercy of balak’s pen he is
the one who decides whether Esther will
live or die there is no viril to guide
him like there is in Dante’s Divine
Comedy this literary comparison
highlights first and foremost the waning
a of the role of religion in human
Affairs at least at the level of
intellectual analysis religious
salvation in Dante is the end and our
life is the means to that end in Balzak
religion becomes the means to
materialistic ends in a powerful scene
in a harlot high and low the Harlot
named Esther is psychologically tortured
because she is unsure whether to become
attached to an old smelly Baron as a
harlot wholeheartedly and jeiz her love
for Lucia at that crucial moment she
goes to her knees and prays to God like
a devout nun and stands up after the
prayer and decides ultimately that he
will be the best Harlot of her times
this is just one case of how religion is
subsumed in Balzac’s novel as a means to
worldly ends in 14th century Europe
divinities were the talk of the day by
the time humors were breathing in the
19th century they were preoccupying
themselves with human Affairs and did
not much care about what zus does with
Ana Balzac’s world is fundamentally an
excess of material interests in it every
character is entrapped or to put it in
hiigaran terms is thrown in the world of
material interests where he or she has
to survive but that makes the world as
messy as our world it does not help us
to understand the world any better in
the process of L he says that the idea
of lamid originated in a comparison
between humanity and animality just as
in the animal world Reigns the rule of
the survival of the fittest in the same
way in the human world the same rule
applies but there’s a crucial difference
between the animal and the human world
I.E money animals compete for food and
get food while humans compete for money
and gain social reputation obviously
they feed themselves with food as well
here we get the answer to the question
with which we began the video if you
want to understand the world around you
you need to look nowhere else but at the
circulation of money that is Balzac’s
answer this answer is very brief this
answer is very brief and realistic to an
extent it also satisfies our natural
urge to unify under un principle all the
various patterns of human behavior so
that we can comfortably understand all
that goes on around us for Balzak money
is the motor of social Machinery in each
novel there are painstaking details of
how the wealth is circulated whether it
be in the form of Grande’s Heritage to
his daughter eugeni or Von’s vicious
plans to use a harlot to milk money from
the State
apparatus ultimately everything is about
money Marx’s best friend and
collaborator angles once said that he
had learned more from Balzak than
professional historians economists and
statisticians combined Marx had paid
various tributes to Balzak in the same
way Balzak had described Human Condition
in so much detail that it only needed a
Marx to derive Marxism out of it this is
not to say that Marx borrowed everything
from Balzak it actually throws light on
the power of literature as providing the
analytic lens that can be employed in
understanding not just ourselves
inwardly but also the social political
and economic world order we see around
us polius in the second book of his
history describes the go as attacking
the Romans so that they can plunder Rome
and it is not just the GS the rotness of
Roman Empire also had money at its
Center earlier Sparta had won the pipian
war before the war they had no money
after the war they had so much wealth
that it brought down the best warrior
city states to have ever existed in the
Western World waging Wars result in
catastrophic loss of human lives but it
is the res on of the military industry
when the us or EU promises billions of
dollars of Aid they are not going to
give paychecks to the countries to whom
they are providing Aid they will give
all this money to their own military
industry to produce weapons well
ultimately it is all about money Balzak
puts enough SL on his Theses of money as
the motor of social Machinery through
different perspectives while traversing
his Pages we find that he’s a
contemporary writer not a contemporary
Because He Lives amongst us but because
his characters are with us everywhere we
encounter them in our families in our
politicians in shopping malls in shop
owners every trival family problem
whether it be between wife and husband
or master and Maid and in the same way
other big problems like political envy
and competition for social reputation
all problems have money at their heart
while reading him the reader is often
struck by the nudity of self-interest
and the extent of wise employ to gain it
but it is not all dark in L man there
are characters like Eugen who know how
to manage money well if in your life you
see Elders fighting in the room over
something it most probably is about some
money matter no matter what spin they
put on it it necessarily has something
to do with money that is what Balz would
suggest you now knowing this should not
make us adamant on fueling the problem
and going around telling everyone that
you are doing this for money that would
really upset people around you Balzak
not only helps us critically analyze the
situation he also provides the means to
deal with it and the best advice one can
get from Balzak in this situation is
silent conspiracy obviously when we hear
the word conspiracy lots of weird
schemes pop in our heads no it is not
that at all silent conspiracy is
basically a strategy that allows the
Observer to work behind the scenes and
manage the situation after all just like
managing Enterprises require strategic
Maneuvers dealing with life also
requires strategy in Cuisine Beth a m
does everything in the novel but hardly
anyone gets to know what she is doing
becoming a silent player is an advantage
that can easily be exploited by everyone
the more silent we are the better the
chance of our success even though it
comes at a price no one will know that
we are successful therefore reading
Balzak is not only necessary to figure
out the world around our immediate
relationships it is also important to
read him to learn how to manage money
one of the primary reasons for writing
90 novels in merely 20 years of time was
the heavy debt Balzak owed to his
publisher it is ironic that the writer
who taught angles the wheels of
money circulation was himself a poor
money manager but perhaps that that is
why his novels are so Lively we learn
more from failures than from successes
after success comes happiness after
failure comes lessons and he made very
good use of his wisdom in studying the
role of failure especially in managing
money we find money in the hands of vies
w in the same as we find money in the
hands of wife
jeni there is so much to learn from
Balzak in terms of living life but
certainly understanding the circulation
of money and problems arising from it is
one of the central lessons of La comedy
woman