Name: Le cousin Pons (in French)
SKU: 57893807
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Author: Honoré De Balzac
ISBN: 9781505277401

Type

Physical Book

Author

Honoré De Balzac

Publisher

Createspace

Language

French

Pages

274

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9x15.2x1.5 cm

Weight

0.37 kg.

ISBN13

9781505277401

Synopsis "Le cousin Pons (in French)"

Ouvrage pessimiste, roman noir où se déploient dans leur hideur un univers cruel, une jungle hantée par des fauves inquiétants, Le Cousin Pons nous présente un monde criminel, en haut comme en bas, du salon à la loge de concierge. Au beau milieu de ce siècle sordide, Sylvain Pons prend rang parmi les martyrs ignorés dont La Comédie Humaine met en scène les souffrances inconnues, les tortures infligées " aux âmes douces par les âmes dures, supplices auxquels succombent tant d'innocentes créatures ". Mais notre esthète angélique est également un gourmand ridicule et la farce s'immisce souvent dans le drame du pitoyable monomane; la dernière grande oeuvre de Balzac est aussi un roman-feuilleton grotesque.

Honoré De Balzac

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Honoré de Balzac (1799-1851), novelist, playwright, literary and art critic, essayist, journalist, and French printer, is considered one of the great writers of realism. Born in Tours, in 1814 he moved to Paris, where he studied law and began working in a law firm, but his love for literature drove him to abandon his career and dedicate himself to writing. He undertook several businesses, which ended in failure and left him in debt. With The Last Chouan (1829), he achieved great success. From then on, he began a feverish activity, writing, among others, The Physiology of Marriage (1829) and The Wild Ass's Skin (1831), with which he began to consolidate his prestige. In 1834, Balzac, a tireless worker, conceived the idea of making an exhaustive portrait of French society of his time by having the same characters appear in different stories, which began to give his work a unitary sense under the title of The Human Comedy, to which belong titles such as Eugénie Grandet (1833), Father Goriot (1835), Splendors and Miseries of Courtesans (1838-1847) or Cousin Bette (1846), although of the 137 novels that were to make it up, fifty remained incomplete. An extraordinary writer, capable of deploying in his works sublime reflections and ideas, creating an interesting story with strong social criticism through exquisite prose of great poetic level and philosophical depth, Balzac is considered the founder of the modern novel.

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