巴尔扎克从小就喜欢文学,特别是诗歌。1816年,他进入法国图尔城法律学校读书,并加入了学校里的诗社。不过,巴尔扎克写的诗非常糟糕,句子枯燥不堪,也谈不上任何的意境和思想,同学们都嘲笑他是一个“根本不会写诗的可怜虫”。在毕业的前一年,巴尔扎克写了一部五幕诗体悲剧《克伦威尔》,但是这是一部完全失败的作品,不仅没人愿意给他出版,一个同学还这样嘲笑他:“你的句子这么没有诗意,不如直接写小说算了!”这个同学的话引起了巴尔扎克的深思,他心想既然自己写的句子 Balzac since childhood liked literature, especially poetry. In 1816 he entered French Law School in Tours and joined the poetry community in the school. However, Balzac wrote poems very bad, the sentence is boring, can not talk about any artistic conception and thought, the students all laughed at him as a “can not write poetry pathetic worm.” In the year before graduation, Balzac wrote a five-poetic tragedy “Cromwell,” but this was a totally failed work. Not only was nobody willing to publish it, one of his classmates laughed at him like this : “Your sentence is so poetic, it is better to write the novel forget! ” The classmate’s speech aroused Balzac’s thought, he thought since the sentence he wrote