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Author | Honoré de Balzac |
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Original title | La Recherche de l'absolu |
Illustrator | Édouard Toudouze |
Country | France |
Language | French |
Series | La Comédie humaine |
Publication date | 1834 |
The Quest of the Absolute (French: La Recherche de l'absolu) is a novel by Honoré de Balzac. [1] The novel first appeared in 1834, with seven chapter-divisions, as a Scène de la vie privée; was published by itself in 1839 by Charpentier; and took its final place as a part of the Comédie in 1845.
The astronomer Ernest Laugier helped Balzac in the use of chemical terminology in this novel. [2]
In François Truffaut's 1959 film The 400 Blows, teenager Antoine Doinel idolizes Balzac's work and depicts 'my grandfather's death' in a school essay, based on the plot of The Quest of the Absolute, leading his teacher to accuse of him of plagiarizing, causing him to quit school.