Engels pointed to a twofold discrepancy: (a) Balzac castigated the nobles, despite his sympathy for this class; (b) he depicted the inevitable rise of the bourgeoisie, despite his antipathy for this class - Upgoat

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The Lesser Bourgeoisie – Study of the works | Honoré de Balzac

https://www.balzac-analyse.com/les-petits-bourgeois/?lang=en

The revolutionary dialectic of Balzac. The aristocracy was incapable of leading society; the bourgeoisie was unworthy

https://marxist.com/the-revolutionary-dialectic-of-balzac-s-human-comedy.htm

Balzac’s visceral disgust for the rising bourgeois liberalism of 19th-century France opened the same aesthetic and philosophical door that Celiné, Wyndham Lewis, Pierre Drieu la Rochelle, Yukio Mishima, and Michel Houellebecq (our greatest living literary artist) would also walk through

https://www.compactmag.com/article/a-reactionary-marxists-can-love/