The Golden Scapegoat: Portrait of the Jew in the Novels of Balzac

Authors

Frances Grodzinsky, Sacred Heart UniversityFollow

Document Type

Book

Publication Date

1989

Abstract

"Unlike other novelists of the early nineteenth century, Honoré de Balzac created important literary characters who were Jewish. Although his Jews display the common stereotypic traits of evil and avarice, Balzac was not a facile anti-Semite. Because of his own eccentric endowments, both as a man and as an artist, he saw more in the Jew than did most of his literary and social contemporaries. The Jews he portrayed were not the unidimensional minor characters commonly found in earlier literature. Rather, they were complex men and women who played major roles in his novels"--From the introduction.

Comments

Grodzinsky, Frances. The Golden Scapegoat: Portrait of the Jew in the Novels of Balzac. Troy, NY: Whitston Publishing, 1989. Print.

ISBN 9780878753437

Recommended Citation

Grodzinsky, Frances, "The Golden Scapegoat: Portrait of the Jew in the Novels of Balzac" (1989). School of Computer Science & Engineering Faculty Publications. 9.
https://digitalcommons.sacredheart.edu/computersci_fac/9