Pierre Grassou

In 'Pierre Grassou', Honoré de Balzac offers a masterful vignette from his monumental La Comédie Humaine, examining the life of a mediocre painter who profits through the folly of bourgeois patrons and blind fortune. With Balzac's quintessential realist style, every mundane detail is bestowed with significance, exposing the idiosyncrasies of 19th-century Parisian society. As a piece of literary re...