Honoré de Balzac

"> "History, by repeating the causes of greatness and decline of everything on earth, could warn man of the moment when he should halt the play of all his faculties; but neither the conquerors, nor the actors, nor the women, nor the authors heed its salutary call [...]. May this history be the poem of bourgeois vicissitudes to which no voice has thought, as they seem devoid of greatness, while they are equally immense [...]." Honoré de Balzac, History of the Greatness and Decline of César Birotteau"

"The solution to the challenge was the telenovela. This format had little to do with the teleteatros; in most cases, its content and style were not related to literary works. Rather, the telenovela arose from radio, specifically from Cuban radio of the 1930s and 1940s. Radio soap operas adopted the melodramatic style of nineteenth-century novelists, such as Charles Dickens and Honoré de Balzac, and of the American radio soap operas of the 1930s, created by large companies to promote their products."