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The Exiles
Honoré de Balzac
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At that period, great and small, priests and laymen, all trembled before the idea of any supernatural power. The word "magic" was as powerful as leprosy to root up feelings, break social ties, and freeze piety in the most generous soul. It suddenly struck the constable's wife that she had never, in fact, seen either of her lodgers exercising any human function. Though the younger man's voice was as sweet and melodious as the tones of a flute, she so rarely heard it that she was tempted to think his silence the result of a spell. As she recalled the stran. . . Read More
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Community Reviews
The Études philosophiques have so far been my least favorite parts of La Comédie humaine, but this "esquisse historique" is Balzac in my personal favorite mode of his: an elaborate frame story is constructed -- in this case, a Parisian constable hosting two strangers he suspects to be wizards -- app
Honoré de Balzac-Les Proscrits
✍"À cette époque, petits et grands, clercs et laïques, tout tremblait à la pensée d’un pouvoir surnaturel. Le mot de magie était aussi puissant que la lèpre pour briser les sentiments, rompre les liens sociaux, et glacer la pitié dans les cœurs les plus généreux."
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Set in 1308 directly behind Notre Dame cathedral in Paris, Balzac gives a fictional homage to Italy. France had long been enamoured of Italian culture. From religion and the Church to art of all kinds, scholasticism and politics, even its sense of honor and individual worth, France acknowledged its
This started well, lovely Balzacian detailed description, I quite enjoyed the sermonising in the middle, but the end, well let's just say it went a bit over the top.
Οι "Επικηρυγμένοι" ή "Προγραμμένοι" (Les Proscrits, στο γαλλικό πρωτότυπο). Στην αγγλική μετάφραση επιλέγεται ο τίτλος "The Exiles" και ακολούθως υπάρχει ελληνική μετάφραση που φέρει ως τίτλο "Οι εκπατρισμένοι", τον οποίο θεωρώ εξίσου δόκιμο, αν και όχι ακριβή, καθώς η πρώτη έκδοση του 1831 φέρει κά