Name: Séraphîta (in French)
SKU: 60185386
Price: 893.00 TWD
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Author: Honoré De Balzac
ISBN: 9782385083823

Type

Physical Book

Author

Honoré De Balzac

Publisher

Culturea

Language

French

Pages

198

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21x14.8x1.1 cm

Weight

0.26 kg.

ISBN13

9782385083823

Synopsis "Séraphîta (in French)"

Balzac écrit à Mme Hanska le 20 novembre 1833: J'ai été dimanche chez Bra, le sculpteur, j'y ai vu le plus beau chef-d'oeuvre qui existe [...]. C'est Marie tenant le Christ enfant adoré par deux anges [...]. Là, j'ai conçu le plus beau livre, un petit volume dont Louis Lambert serait la préface, une oeuvre intitulée Séraphîta. Séraphîta serait les deux natures en un seul être [...], mais avec cette différence que je suppose cette créature un ange arrivé à sa dernière transformation et, brisant son enveloppe pour monter aux cieux, il est aimé par un homme et par une femme auxquels il dit, en s'envolant aux cieux qu'ils ont aimé l'un et l'autre l'amour qui les liait, en le voyant en lui, ange tout pur, et il leur révèle leur passion, leur laisse l'amour, en échappant à nos misères terrestres. Si je le puis, j'écrirai ce bel ouvrage, à Genève, près de toi. Il ne l'écrira pas en sa présence mais il lui dédiera ce roman sublime, achevé à Paris en novembre 1835, dans lequel le thème de l'androgyne angélique est divinement traité.

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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