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Unconscious Comedians

Honoré de Balzac

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. . .Now-a-days, they are trying to get on without us. Folly!" continued the little man, who began to seem terrible. "Since 1830 they want honest men at the prefecture! I resigned, and I've made myself a small vocation by arresting for debt."

"He is the right arm of the commercial police," said Gaillard in Bixiou's ear, "but you can never find out who pays him most, the debtor or the creditor."

"The more rascally a business is, the more honor it needs. I'm for him who pays me best," continued Fromenteau addressing Gaillard. "You want to recover fifty thousand francs and you talk farthings to your means of action. Give me five hundred francs and your man is pinched to-night, for we spotted him yesterday!"

"Five hundred francs for you alone!" cried Theodore Gaillard.

"Lizette wants a shawl," said the spy, not a muscle of his face moving. "I call her Lizette because of Beranger."

"You have a Lizette, and you stay in such a b. . . Read More

Community Reviews

Savoureux portrait des figures parisiennes en 1845. Deux compères mystifient gentiment un Provincial qui découvre la capitale.

This late work summarizes everything he'd written about Paris in the previous gazillion novels Ask me how I know.

Esej o umetnicima Pariza,Parizu,Provinciji,Parižanima...samo da je malo duži...more

One doesn't frequently associate Balzac with humor, but stories like The Unconscious Comedians can make one change one's mind. This novelette is the story of a manufacturer from Roussillon named Gazonal who seeks help from his cousin Leon de Lora, a successful painter, in a lawsuit that is going bad

My translation was entitled The Unconscious Mummers. At just over sixty pages in length, this novella is a charming extended joke carried out by two native Parisians on their country cousin from the Pyrenees. At the same time, it is Balzac's sincere effort to show the intricacies of Parisian life in

Publicado em 1845, faz parte de Estudos de Costumes - Cenas da Vida Parisiense. O título da primeira edição era O Provinciano em Paris e se trata exatamente disso.
Essa novela é composta por uma série de cenas, onde Gazonal vem de uma cidade provinciana a fim de resolver um pendência burocrática em P

Pas un livre à lire quand on est fatigué! J'ai mis un moment à comprendre le principe, pourtant simple, de la déambulation dans Paris à la recherche de types curieux à observer. Et il y a plein d'histoires de sous difficiles à comprendre, comme souvent chez Balzac. Mais c'est sympa, une fois qu'on s

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