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The Thirteen
Honoré de Balzac
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Baronne de Maulincour, nee de Rieux.
"Oh! what torture!" cried Jules.
"What is it? what is in your mind?" asked his wife, exhibiting the deepest anxiety.
"I have come," he answered, slowly, as he threw her the letter, "to ask myself whether it can be you who have sent me that to avert my suspicions. Judge, therefore, what I suffer."
"Unhappy man!" said Madame Jules, letting fall the paper. "I pity him; though he has done me great harm. . . Read More
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La prima metà dell'Ottocento francese, teatro di contrasti politici e di trasformazioni sociali, offrì alla letteratura un' inesauribile fonte di ispirazione.
Sollecitato da questa particolare situazione nacque, e si affermò rapidamente in quegli anni, un nuovo genere di narrativa misteriosa, gialla
1833-1834 m. kūrinys, nepriskiriamas prie geriausių šio puikaus rašytojo romanų. Romantizmo jau senokai atsisakyta, dabar kūrybos credo – tikroviškumas. Tai pasiruošimo sukurti "Žmogiškąją komediją" (17 tomų!) metas.
Dar ne tas BALZAKAS, kurį žinome iš geriausių jo kūrinių.
Trys įdomios istorijos, par
This three-in-one was fun for me. Each of the titles "Ferragus: Chief of the Companions of Duty", "The Duchesse De Langeais", and "The Girl with the Golden Eyes" give different views of French Parisian society in the 1820's.
Ferragus is an inside man who has access and means for escape to go and do
3.5 stars, has some highlights of human observation and some lowlights where Balzac just seems to have placed some text in there for no obvious reason. Pumping out that many books his characters can be blonde one page, dark haired the next but you’re not reading him for intricate details.
Less the s
E könyvet forgatva sokszor felmerült bennem a kérdés, hogy ugyan miért is olvasok én Balzacot? (Azon túl, hogy Emma lányom választotta ki a három elé tett francia szerző közül, azzal az indoklással, hogy „selymes a tapintása”. Köszönöm neked, Világirodalom Remekei-sorozat, a selymes borítókat!) Mert
2019 was to be the year of Project Balzac, an attempt to get at least knee deep, possibly waist deep into the human comedy. It nearly came to grief at the start of the second of the three novellas that make up this collection, an interminable and prolix account of the position of the aristocracy in
19th Century French Superheroes Avoid Kryptonite!
Nothing can stop these guys, even if they can’t leap tall buildings at a single bound!
Whoa, dude! Balzac anticipated American comics and TV by about a century, but his imagination was far less technological. I mean, no batmobiles, no spider DNA, and n
The criminal as superman: Balzac's fascination with crime as the obverse of society and because the criminal epitomizes the shapeshifting of modernism. There's also a heavily gothic element to these stories. Balzac distinguishes his novellas from 'traditional' gothic because he is charting the physi