Balzac’s interest in other countries comes from travel and reading. More profoundly, however, it is the result of an epistemological position resulting from the Enlightenment: the idea that variation of codes and behavior in space has become the essential dimension of societies. Therefore, the territories included in his thought are not only the ones visited in reality but also the foreign space where he has never traveled: his work carries the obvious traces of this dual influence.
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques