"Me have that golden gown!" A blameless girl and her monstrous relatives clash over love and money in Balzac's matchless portrayal of greed in a French provincial town.
Cuentos declaradamente irónicos en los que se enfrentan ética y estética, realismo e idealismo, lo que es y lo que podría ser.No es nada exagerado considerar a Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) el primer novelista moderno, el primero al que podemos leer como un contemporaneo nuestro. Despues de todo es un escritor excepcional de un siglo excepcional en una literatura excepcional como la francesa. Estos Cinco cuentos filosoficos que podrian tambien, igualmente, haber sido tildados de morales o de inmorales, de humoristicos o de metafisicos, son en realidad cinco cuentos amplia y declaradamente ironicos en los que se enfrentan etica y estetica, realismo e idealismo, lo que es y lo que podria ser. Todo al servicio de un sutilisimo conocimiento de la condicion humana y de la gran literatura.Honore de Balzac (1799-1850) escritor realista frances es el autor de obras cumbres de la literatura universal como la monumental "La comedia humana". Emile Marco de Saint Hilaire (1796-1887) fue un escritor y folletinista frances del siglo XIX.No es nada exagerado considerar a Honore de Balzac (1799-1850) el primer novelista moderno, el primero al que podemos leer como un contemporaneo nuestro. Despues de todo es un escritor excepcional de un siglo excepcional en una literatura excepcional como la francesa. Estos Ci...
Colonel Chabert is a soldier, who goes missing during the Napoleonic wars, and then returns from the dead, most inconveniently for his wife, who has remarried and has gone up in the world. This novella by Balzac lays bare the venality of the French Restoration period. It has been filmed several times, most recently in the 1994 version, starring Gerard Depardieu. - Summary by Nicole Lee
Eugénie Grandet, first published in 1833, is one of Honoré de Balzacs finest novels, and one of the first works in what would become his large novel series titled La Comédie Humaine. Set in a provincial town in post-Revolutionary France, the story deals with money, avarice, love, and obsession. A wealthy old miser must manage the passion of his innocent daughter, who later has to navigate on her own the treacherous ways of a world in which money is "the only god." Balzacs meticulous use of psychological and physical detail influenced the development of 19th-century literary realism, in the hands of writers such as Dickens, Dostoyevsky, Flaubert, and Henry James. - Summary by Bruce Pirie
Cousin Pons is one of the final works in Balzacs long novel series titled The Human Comedy. It was published in 1847, along with Cousin Betty, as one of a complementary pair of novels, collectively titled Poor Relations. While Cousin Betty tells the story of a bitter woman who seeks revenge on her wealthier relations, in Cousin Pons, Balzac turns to the story of an timid, innocent man who is exploited and victimized by the wealthier members of his extended family.Balzac offers probing character portraits and an indictment of greed and materialism in this detailed portrait of mid-19th-century French life. He is considered one of the finest European novelists of his century and a significant influence on the development of literary realism. (Summary by Bruce Pirie)
