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Sons of the Soil

Honoré de Balzac

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. . . that he was likely to notice its presence or its absence immediately.

"Ah, the sharks!" he cried. "If I hunt otters they hunt fathers-in-law! They get out of me all I earn, and tell me it is for my good! If it were not for my poor Mouche, who is the comfort of my old age, I'd drown myself. Children! they are the ruin of their fathers. You haven't married, have you, Monsieur Charles? Then don't; never get married, and then you can't reproach yourself for spreading bad blood. I, who expected to buy my tow with that money, and there it is filched, stolen! That monsieur up at Les Aigues, a fine young fellow, gave me ten francs; ha! well! it'll put up the price of my otter now."

Charles distrusted the old man so profoundly that he took his grievances (this time very sincere) for the preliminary of what he called, in servant's slang, "varnish," and he made the great mistake of letting his opinion appear in a satirical grin, which the spiteful old fellow . . . Read More

Community Reviews

A really insightful novel set against the backdrop of fierce class struggle in Burgundy.

Marx and Trotsky both commented on Balzacs depiction of the peasantry and how he was able to grasp their psychology and motives.

The setting of the novel is the estate of Les Aigues. The estate was not broken up a

J’aurais mis 5 étoiles si Balzac avait eu le temps de le finir, mais c’est Eve Hanska qui a rédigé la deuxième partie d’après les notes de Balzac.
C’est un roman féroce sur les rapports entre les paysans et les bourgeois.
Que ce soit les pauvres gens ou les petits bourgeois enrichis des petites villes

Honoré de Balzac-Les paysans
✍"...les cigales chantent, le grillon crie, les capsules de quelques graines craquent, les pavots laissent aller leur morphine en larmes liquoreuses, tout se découpe nettement sur le bleu foncé de l’éther."
✍"... enfin, le riche a des passions, le paysan n’a que des besoin

I wouldn't recommend this to a new Balzac reader, but I've read so much of his work now that I have learned to love the digressions, the back stories, the moralizing. You get the feeling that Balzac really knew these peasant people and the provincial hatreds - yes, it's discursive and meandering, bu

3,5

Esse livro faz parte de Estudos de Costumes - Cenas da Vida Rural e foi publicado em duas partes, sendo a primeira em 1844 e a segunda postumamente em 1855.
Com essa leitura é possível entender a admiração que Engels e Marx tinham pelo autor, um grande observador de seu tempo, em todos os aspectos.
Ap

Το βιβλίο αυτό αποδεικνύει ένα συχνό θέμα στη ζωή: ακόμη κι οι ολότελα άδικοι σε κάποιο σημείο έχουν ή είχαν ένα μέρος δίκιου το οποίο από κινητήριος πυρήνας για κάθε τίμια πράξη ή έστω αντίπραξη έγινε λάβαρο για πράξη κάθε χαρακτήρα. Η τριάδα του Γκωμερτέν, οι χωριάτες, ο στρατηγός έχουν όλοι κάπου

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