Name: Obra Maestra Desconocida y Otros Relatos, la (in Spanish)
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Author: Honoré De Balzac
ISBN: 9789500396714

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Obra Maestra Desconocida y Otros Relatos, la (in Spanish)

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Honoré De Balzac

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Synopsis "Obra Maestra Desconocida y Otros Relatos, la (in Spanish)"

Este singular volumen agrupa, alrededor de "La obra maestra desconocida" (1831), otros seis relatos. Todos fueron elegidos porque tratan de la pintura, o porque tienen un valor pictórico particular, o bien porque son "coloridos". En el relato que presta su título al volumen, el anciano maestro Frenhofer tarda diez años en terminar de pintar un cuadro; cuando finalmente lo muestra, sus amigos sólo ven el caos en él. En "Fierre Grassou", por el contrario, se trata de un pintor sin talento, humilde y conmovedor. "Facino Cañe" pone en escena a un príncipe veneciano, ahora clarinetista ciego. "El elixir de la vida", "La posada roja", "Maese Cornelius" y "Un drama a orillas del mar" sugieren el influjo de Eugéne Delacroix. El lector encontrará al mismo tiempo en este libro una particular estética y novelescas peripecias. La mirada del Balzac visionario brilla en los siete bellos relatos: el primero es justificadamente célebre, los demás merecen también serlo.

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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