Name: Adieu (in French)
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Author: Honoré De Balzac
ISBN: 9781500275884

Type

Physical Book

Author

Honoré De Balzac

Publisher

Createspace

Language

French

Pages

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9 x 15.2 x 0.2 cm

Weight

0.05 kg.

ISBN13

9781500275884

Synopsis "Adieu (in French)"

"La comtesse Stéphanie de Vandières, qui avait suivi son vieux mari, le général de Vandières, dans la campagne de Russie, a été sauvée par son ami d'enfance, le major Philippe de Sucy, lors du passage de la Bérésina. Au moment de leur séparation, la jeune femme, prise de panique crie: "Adieu!" à son amant resté sur l'autre berge. 6 ans après, Philippe de Sucy, devenu colonel, aperçoit, lors d'une partie de chasse dans le parc d'un ancien prieuré, la silhouette fantomatique mais toujours d'une étrange beauté, d'une femme qui ne cesse de répéter le mot "Adieu". Le colonel croit reconnaître Stéphanie, qu'il n'avait jamais revue depuis. L'émotion est si forte qu'il s'évanouit... Philippe de Sucy, à qui on confirme l'identité de la jeune femme, découvre avec horreur que le comportement de Stéphanie ressemble à celui d'un animal. Il essaie de convaincre le docteur Fanjat de tenter un traitement sur la jeune femme. Il est persuadé qu'un choc émotionnel puissant peut lui faire recouvrer la raison..."

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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