Name: Le cousin Pons (in French)
SKU: 61609000
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Author: Honoré De Balzac
ISBN: 9781545317501

Type

Physical Book

Author

Honoré De Balzac

Illustrated by

Mybook

Publisher

Createspace

Language

French

Pages

620

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9x15.2x3.2 cm

Weight

0.82 kg.

ISBN13

9781545317501

Synopsis "Le cousin Pons (in French)"

Le spencer du cousin le classe déjà dans les gens démodés. Maurice Ménard le place dans la même catégorie que le père Séchard des Illusions perdues, le père Grandet, ou le Père Goriot: ce sont des hommes d'une autre époque égarés dans un siècle qui n'est pas le leur.Sylvain Pons a en outre deux autres manies qui feront de lui une victime: il est gourmand, et a une passion de collectionneur d'objets précieux. Homme pauvre vivant avec son fidèle ami, l'Allemand Schmucke, dans des conditions presque sordides, il est prêt à subir toutes les humiliations pour être invité à un bon repas dans la riche famille de ses cousins Camusot de Marville, en réalité nobles de fraîche date, qui par ailleurs le méprisent.

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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