[Gutenberg 7417] • The Resources of Quinola: A Comedy in a Prologue and Five Acts

Excerpt from The Dramatic Works of Honore De Balzac, Vol. 1: Vautrin; Quinola's Resources; Pamela Giraud

Nor do they belong to what might be called the incubating period of his talent, to those long years of dire poverty - from 1822 to 1829 - when the struggling young author was issuing under various noms de plume the many stories included since among the novels of his youth. No, the dramatic works of Balzac all date from the hey day of the prolific author's life - h'om 1838 to 1850, the year of his death. Thus does fall to the ground the unjust assertion made by people who never perused these plays that they are but inferior productions of either an undeveloped or an exhausted writer.

Finally an explanation is in order as to the comparative lack of success of these productions on the stage, as it has had evidently a serious influence on the decision of foreign publishers not to include them in their sets of translations.

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