Name: Le Chef-d'Oeuvre Inconnu (in French)
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Author: Honoré De Balzac
ISBN: 9782253138082

portada Le Chef-d'Oeuvre Inconnu (in French)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Honoré De Balzac

Publisher

Livre de Poche

Year

1995

Language

French

Pages

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

17.5x10.9x0.8 cm

Weight

0.04 kg.

ISBN13

9782253138082

Synopsis "Le Chef-d'Oeuvre Inconnu (in French)"

A Paris, au début du xviie siècle, trois peintres devisent de leur art. L'un est un jeune inconnu, promis à la gloire: Nicolas Poussin. Le deuxième, Franz Porbus, portraitiste officiel de feu le roi Henri IV, est, lui, dans la plénitude de son talent et au faîte de la renommée. Le troisième, maître Frenhofer, personnage plein de mystère qui a côtoyé les plus grands maîtres et assimilé leurs leçons, met la dernière main dans le plus grand secret à un bien mystérieux chef-d'oeuvre . Il faudra que Gillette, la compagne de Poussin, en qui Frenhofer espère trouver le modèle idéal cherché en vain depuis des années, soit admise dans l'atelier du peintre pour que, y pénétrant derrière elle, Porbus et Poussin découvrent le tableau dont Frenhofer gardait jalousement le secret. Et cette découverte les plongera dans la stupéfaction.Ce conte fantastique à la manière d'Hoffmann est aussi une méditation sur le pouvoir de l'esprit dans le domaine de l'art. Il prend naturellement sa place parmi les Etudes philosophiques de La Comédie humaine.

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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