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Study of a Woman
Honoré de Balzac
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Occasionally some fops have been sufficiently impertinent to press the hand of the marquise while dancing with her. They gained nothing in return but contemptuous glances; all were made to feel the shock of that insulting indifference which, like a spring frost, destroys the germs of flattering hopes. Beaux, wits, and fops, men whose sentiments are fed by sucking their canes, those of a great name, or a great fame, those of the highest or the lowest rank in her own world, they all blanch before her. She has conquered the right to converse as long and as often as she chooses with the men who seem to her agreeable, without being entered on the tablets of gossip. Certain coquettish women are capable of following a plan of this kind for seven years in order to gratify their fancies later; but to suppose any such reservations in the Marquise de Listomere would be to calumn. . . Read More
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Community Reviews
Una vez más, Balcac nos muestra la mirada de la época hacia la mujer. La mujer que es más de lo que muestra, bueno y malo.
Otro estudio de mujer, de Honoré de Balzac, parte de las “Escenas de la Vida Privada” (1842)
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Esta novella de 38 páginas en la edición de la Obras Completas de Balzac de la editorial Aguilar (letra pequeña, dos columnas por página) y unas 60 en la de editorial Vergara, ha sido comparada por algunos c
Um omeletão de contos esparsos reunidos "numa brilhante noite de conversas" posteriormente pelo Balzac para fazer dinheiro. Epítome do fan service gratuito, com 50 personagens aparecendo para falar quase nada.
O primeiro conto é sem graça, só faz sentido para o leitor das demais obras da CH.
O segundo
Very witty and amusing. What excellent prose. The first of Balzac's writings I've read. The most effective writer to date, in my experience, who has led me into certain mindsets indicative of this time.
Eine zweite Frauenstudie. Wir befinden uns in einem Salon, in dem munter über dies un det geredet wird, hauptsächlich darüber, was es bedeutet eine elegante Frau zu sein. (Sie lässt sich, wenn überhaupt, nur Blumen schenken.) Madame de Nucingen: "Früher konnte eine Frau die Stimme einer Heringsverkä
Mainly an interesting conversation between a large number of Balzac's repertory characters on the subject of the perfect woman. Although it degenerates into reminiscences, it is yet another interesting fragment which its author probably considered for inclusion of a work yet to be written.
THIRTEEN Y