Name: Cousin Pons
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Author: Honoré De Balzac
ISBN: 9781974696604

Type

Physical Book

Author

Honoré De Balzac

Translated by

Ellen Marriage

Publisher

Createspace

Language

English

Pages

126

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

25.4x17.8x0.7 cm

Weight

0.23 kg.

ISBN13

9781974696604

Synopsis "Cousin Pons"

Texte intregral. Ouvrage pessimiste, roman noir ou se deploient dans leur hideur un univers cruel, une jungle hantee par des fauves inquietants, Le Cousin Pons nous presente un monde criminel, en haut comme en bas, du salon a la loge de concierge. Au beau milieu de ce siecle sordide, Sylvain Pons prend rang parmi les martyrs ignores dont La Comedie Humaine met en scene les souffrances inconnues, les tortures infligees "aux ames douces par les ames dures, supplices auxquels succombent tant d'innocentes creatures." Mais notre esthete angelique, aussi bon et naif que ''la cousine Bette'' est aigrie et nuisible, est egalement un gourmand ridicule et la farce s'immisce souvent dans le drame du pitoyable monomane; la derniere grande oeuvre de Balzac se revele etre une profonde reflexion sur l'energie: la collection, comme la gourmandise, est une double compensation, materielle et passionnelle, du manque d'argent et d'amour. Comme dans La Peau de chagrin, le probleme est de se mefier du desir si l'on veut durer et construire.

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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