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The Muse of the Department
Honoré de Balzac
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Romance com bom andamento, apesar das intervenções do romancista e da tentativa de inserir discussões contemporâneas na obra. Fazia tempo que não me divertia tanto com uma obra de Balzac!
Balzac-La muse de département
✍"— Lorsque les femmes nous aiment, elles nous pardonnent tout, même nos crimes ; lorsqu'elles ne nous aiment pas, elles ne nous pardonnent rien, pas même nos vertus!"
✍"Lousteau se promena, fumant des cigares et cherchant des idées ; car les idées, à Paris, sont dans l'a
Un libro poco conosciuto, di Honoré de Balzac, che rispetto a classici come "Anna Karenina", "Madame Bovary" e "l'amante di lady Chatterley" tratta il tema dell'adulterio in un modo unico e differente, da questi acclamati capolavori poc'anzi citati. Honoré de Balzac è distaccato e retorico, potrem
A Sancerre, piccolo paesino sulle rive della Loira va in scena un adulterio, protagonisti della vicenda saranno Polydore de La Baudraye, un possidente terriero intento a scalare meritatamente la società, sua moglie Dina Piédefer, giovane donna estremamente istruita, curiosa e grande oratrice tanto d
Published together with L'illustre Gaudissart under the collective title Les Parisiens en province, this novel is not one of Balzac's better books in my opinion. It is the story of a George-Sands-wannabee, Dinah de La Baudraye, who lives in the provincial town of Sancerre, and her affair with an uns
Publicado em 1844 faz parte de uma série chamada Os Parisienses na Provìncia, junto com O Ilustre Gaudissart.
Dinah Piédefer se casa com o avarento e ambicioso La Baudraye, ambos movidos por conveniência e se instalam em Sancerre, lugarzinho que fiquei com vontade de conhecer pelas belas descrições (
and now I have to read Benjamin Constant's Adolphe
The Muse of the Department involves a young woman who is married to a man 30 years her senior, a rather smallish and once-sickly man, miserly and wanting of an heir. After five years of marriage, there is no heir in sight, and, though in the early days of the marriage he was generous, Monsieur de la