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Eve and David
Honoré de Balzac
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Ève and David is the final book in Balzac’s Lost Illusions trilogy, which is part of his sweeping set of novels collectively titled La Comédie Humaine. The story is set in post-Napoleonic France. In the first volume of the trilogy, we meet Lucien Chardon, an aspiring poet frustrated by the pettiness of provincial life. In the second volume (A Distinguished Provincial at Paris) Lucien, now using the more aristocratic-sounding surname "de Rubempré," leaves his family in order to seek fame and fortune in the literary world of Paris. By the end of that book, he faced imminent emotional and financial collapse.
In this present volume, the reader is returned to the provincial town of Angoulême, where Lucien's sister Ève and her husband, Lucien's friend David, have been desperately struggling against clever competition to keep a their printing shop afloat. Their situation is complicated when Lucien's financial distress spills over into their lives.
Ève and David is the final book in Balzac’s Lost Illusions trilogy, which is part of his sweeping set of novels collectively titled La Comédie Humaine. The story is set in post-Napoleonic France. In the first volume of the trilogy, we meet Lucien Chardon, an aspiring poet frustrated by the pettiness of provincial life. In the second volume (A Distinguished Provincial at Paris) Lucien, now using the more aristocratic-sounding surname "de Rubempré," leaves his family in order to seek fame and fortune in the literary world of Paris. By the end of that book, he faced imminent emotional and financial collapse.
In this present volume, the reader is returned to the provincial town of Angoulême, where Lucien's sister Ève and her husband, Lucien's friend David, have been desperately struggling against clever competition to keep a their printing shop afloat. Their situation is complicated when Lucien's financial distress spills over into their lives.
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Impressionante como Balzac disseca a sociedade francesa do século XIX e mostra as consequências do espírito da Revolução, que prossegue até nossos dias. O antigo regime foi derrubado pelo povo, mas a nova elite burguesa não parece muito melhor e uma nova aristocracia se consolida, talvez ainda mais
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For the most part , it felt like reading a text book . There is always something to take away from old texts though .The fine detail of the paper and printing press and some French history was worthy of a read . I appreciated the last part on the story about Lucien meeting the Spanish priest while c
Parece que Balzac escreveu esta 'segunda parte' uns oito anos depois da primeira - tem já uns truques narrativos e até uma espécie de 'diabolus ex machina', que aparece do nada para salvar o personagem, comprando-lhe a alminha.
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