The French-language film Balzac et La Petite Tailleuse Chinoise is based on an autobiographical novel by Dai Sijie. The book was published all over the world, though not in the author's native China.

Long before William Faulkner connected multiple novels and stories via a fictional Mississippi county he called Yoknapatawpha ...

On the green panel that must date from the Soviet Union, Honoré de Balzac can be seen wearing a tan and sideburns. He looks like an old rocker. Next to him, always at the entrance to the park ...