Name: Melmoth reconcilie (in French)
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Author: Honoré De Balzac
ISBN: 9781534978546

Type

Physical Book

Author

Honoré De Balzac

Illustrated by

Hollybooks

Publisher

Createspace

Language

French

Pages

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9x15.2x0.3 cm

Weight

0.08 kg.

ISBN13

9781534978546

Synopsis "Melmoth reconcilie (in French)"

Dans sa dédicace à Monsieur le général baron de Pommereul, Balzac définit ainsi le caissier qui sera la proie de Melmoth: Il est une nature d'hommes que la civilisation obtient dans le règne social, comme les fleuristes créent dans le règne végétal par l'éducation de la serre, une espèce hybride qu'ils ne peuvent reproduire ni par semis, ni par bouture. Cet homme est un caissier, véritable produit anthropomorphe, arrosé par les idées religieuses, maintenu par la guillotine, ébranché par le vice, et qui pousse à un troisième étage entre une femme estimable et des enfants ennuyeux. C'est dire le peu d'estime qu'il a pour le personnage auquel il réserve une vie affreuse.

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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