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At the Sign of the Cat & Racket
Honoré de Balzac
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The two sisters, always plainly dressed, could not gratify the innate vanity of womanhood but by a luxury of cleanliness which became them wonderfully, and made them harmonize with the polished counters and the shining shelves, on which the old man-servant never left a speck of dust, and with the old-world simplicity of all they saw about them. As their style of living compelled them to find the elements of happiness in persistent work, Augustine and Virginie had hitherto always satisfied their mother, who secretly prided herself on the perfect characters of her two d. . . Read More
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Instead of watching soap operas you should read this - gives you an excellent insight to the human psychology...more
La Comedie Humaine, but this book is everything but a comedy. I admit it took me a long time to read tho whole piece because I did not simply read it - I suffered through it. Even though many people think it's rather boring and difficult to read, I don't think there is a single useless word in the w
Una obra que vale la pena leer si se desea conocerse un poco más y a todos nuestros congéneres, su realismo brutal podría llegar a deprimir si no fuera porque su oscuro sentido del humor sobre la naturaleza humana rescata totalmente ésta obra, no por algo es un clásico.
Livro lido 1°/Ago//38°/2017
Título: Ilusões Perdidas
Título original: Illusions Perdues
Publicação original: entre 1836 e 1843
Autor: Honoré de Balzac (França)
Editora: @globolivros (Biblioteca Azul)
Publicado: 2013
Tradução: Paulo Rónai
Páginas: 792
Minha classificação: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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Une fresque gigantesque dont je n'ai lu qu une petite quantité mais les descriptions sont étonnantes . Le seul élément désservant le style de Balzac est que ses fameuses descriptions ne sont pas toujours fidèles...Mais dans l art du détail il est l un des maîtres incontesté de ce style!
کتاب کمدی انسانی داستان زنی به نام دوشس دولانجه را به ما نشان می دهد که با یک عشق اسمانی در حالیکه می خواهد روح او را بشناسد با یک جنرال سرسخت ارتش روبرو می شود بالزاک جامعه خود را محکوم نمی کند اما توجه خواننده را جلب می کند که ممکن است در قالب یک زن انحرافی عشق پاک وجود داشته باشد
The edition of this book was from 1899 and had such a feeling of antiquity to it, it was almost spooky. I came to understand what Edith Wharton learned from Balzac about the way he weaves his stories. That each and everyone was utterly bleak was disappointing.