Marx-Engels Correspondence 1852
Source: Marx Engels On Literature and Art, Progress Publishers, 1976;
Transcribed: by Andy Blunden;
What can one say about a little man who, when he reads a novel by Balzac for the first time (and the Cabinet des antiques or P�re Goriot at that), is infinitely superior and speaks of it with the greatest contempt as something commonplace that has been known for a long time.