Name: Ferragus (in French)
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Author: Honoré De Balzac

Type

Physical Book

Author

Honoré De Balzac

Illustrated by

Edinson Saguez

Publisher

Createspace

Language

French

Pages

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9x15.2x0.5 cm

Weight

0.14 kg.

ISBN13

9781535572903

Synopsis "Ferragus (in French)"

Ferragus est un roman d'Honoré de Balzac paru en 1833 dans la Revue de Paris. Une femme, généreuse et belle comme un ange, soupçonnée d'adultère; un jeune officier qui se lance dans la plus vaine et maladroite des enquêtes; un agent de change égaré dans les affres de la passion; une somme d'argent qu'on n'explique pas; une société secrète (les Dévorants) dont les membres entendent exercer l'absolutisme de leur bon plaisir; des duels, des assassinats, des suicides; une évocation de Vidocq; le tout sur un fond de ville monstre - Paris - gigantesque théâtre des fièvres de la Restauration: tout Balzac est déjà dans Ferragus qui apparaît comme l'une des étapes essentielles du grand oeuvre, l'un des romans fondateurs de ce qui deviendra La Comédie humaine. Entre roman gothique et roman policier, Ferragus est connu des initiés. Il ne tient qu'à vous de rejoindre le club.

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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