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Gambara

Honoré de Balzac

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .The composer was now forty; but although his high brow was bald and lined with a few parallel, but not deep, wrinkles; in spite, too, of hollow temples where the blue veins showed through the smooth, transparent skin, and of the deep sockets in which his black eyes were sunk, with their large lids and light lashes, the lower part of his face made him still look young, so calm was its outline, so soft the modeling. It could be seen at a glance that in this man passion had been curbed to the advantage of the intellect; that the brain alone had grown old in some great struggle.

Andrea shot a swift look at Marianna, who was watching him. And he noted the beautiful Italian head, the exquisite proportion and rich coloring that revealed one of those organizations in which every human power is harmoniously balanced, he sounded the gulf that divided this couple, brought together by fate. Well content with the promise he inferred from this dissimilarity between the husb. . . Read More

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- Cole - Feb 21, 2022

This feels like a horror story designed only to terrify a very niche audience, to which I happen to belong. Balzac often comes across as arrogant, but then I read something like this that seems to reveal the artistic anxieties he surely battled with constantly. Here his mysticism is at direct odds w

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- Maria - Jun 11, 2017

3,5
Readathon 2017 19/26:ενα βιβλιο που διαδραματίζεται σε μια πόλη που θα ήθελα να ζήσω

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- Jim - Oct 24, 2010

Gambara is one of Balzac's wry studies of unsuccessful genius, in which it closely resembles The Unknown Masterpiece, about a painter named Frenhofer.

A wealthy Italian count named Andrea Marcosini becomes intrigued with a woman he thinks is a woman of the streets who turns out to be the young wife

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