Balzac's Influence on Ba Jin

Balzac had a great influence on Ba Jin. Honorable Balzac, a French novelist, is known as the father of modern French novels and was born in a middle-class family in Tours, central France. Ba Jin, China writer, translator, social activist, patriotic democrat without party affiliation. Ba Jin's essays written after the Cultural Revolution are simple and sincere, full of the author's remorse and introspection, so Ba Jin is known as the conscience of China literature in the 20th century.