| Author: | Honoré de Balzac | ISBN: | 1230003208434 |
| Publisher: | Guy Deloeuvre | Publication: | April 29, 2019 |
| Imprint: | Language: | English |
| Author: | Honoré de Balzac |
| ISBN: | 1230003208434 |
| Publisher: | Guy Deloeuvre |
| Publication: | April 29, 2019 |
| Imprint: | |
| Language: | English |
This story written in 1829 was later placed by Balzac at the opening of the "Comédie Humaine". We find the plot of what the novels will be and we already meet the heroes of other episodes. Everything here prefigures Balzac's great work. It is in these few pages a perfect miniature of everything that will follow. La Maison du chat qui pelote, the definitive title given to this book by the author, was originally entitled "Glory and Woe". It is about the fate of a woman who is favoured by everything. But can love resist over the years, unlike classes? Current questions that Balzac, as always with his genius, asks and answers, showing us that nothing has changed in the end today.
Four "scenes from private life", four short stories written around 1830 that show us Balzac beginning his social investigation, taking root in reality, laying the first stones of the building of The Human Comedy. This comedy is first and foremost that of love, and three of these stories tell us of failed marriages, one because of cultural incompatibility, the other because of social arrogance, the third because of family revenge madness. But beyond the novelistic plot appears the soon abounding variety of types and conditions: shopkeepers and court people, remnants of the Ancien Régime, lions and wolves of the Restoration, at the same time as Balzac discovers the mysterious and cruel Paris that will be one of the main characters in his work.
Between the shop and the needlework, life is not very cheerful for Virginie and Augustine, the two daughters of the Maison du chat-qui-pelote.
But now a painter, randomly taking the rue Saint-Denis, is seduced by the picturesque shop, and by the pretty Augustine, who soon gives him his heart.
The fate of Virginia, who married the first shop clerk, seemed dull next to that of her sister, adorned with all the colours of love and happiness....
This story written in 1829 was later placed by Balzac at the opening of the "Comédie Humaine". We find the plot of what the novels will be and we already meet the heroes of other episodes. Everything here prefigures Balzac's great work. It is in these few pages a perfect miniature of everything that will follow. La Maison du chat qui pelote, the definitive title given to this book by the author, was originally entitled "Glory and Woe". It is about the fate of a woman who is favoured by everything. But can love resist over the years, unlike classes? Current questions that Balzac, as always with his genius, asks and answers, showing us that nothing has changed in the end today.
Four "scenes from private life", four short stories written around 1830 that show us Balzac beginning his social investigation, taking root in reality, laying the first stones of the building of The Human Comedy. This comedy is first and foremost that of love, and three of these stories tell us of failed marriages, one because of cultural incompatibility, the other because of social arrogance, the third because of family revenge madness. But beyond the novelistic plot appears the soon abounding variety of types and conditions: shopkeepers and court people, remnants of the Ancien Régime, lions and wolves of the Restoration, at the same time as Balzac discovers the mysterious and cruel Paris that will be one of the main characters in his work.
Between the shop and the needlework, life is not very cheerful for Virginie and Augustine, the two daughters of the Maison du chat-qui-pelote.
But now a painter, randomly taking the rue Saint-Denis, is seduced by the picturesque shop, and by the pretty Augustine, who soon gives him his heart.
The fate of Virginia, who married the first shop clerk, seemed dull next to that of her sister, adorned with all the colours of love and happiness....
