Name: La Cousine Bette (in French)
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Author: Honoré De Balzac
ISBN: 9782812412202

Type

Physical Book

Author

Honoré De Balzac

Illustrated by

Maurice Allem

Publisher

Classiques Garnier

Language

French

Pages

500

Format

Paperback

Weight

3.13 kg.

ISBN13

9782812412202

Synopsis "La Cousine Bette (in French)"

Not only poor, Lisbeth Fischer is also the epitome of the frustration and sadism being used to ruin her own family. Balzac was planning to write a shorter work of fiction, but La Cousine Bette ultimately emerges as one of the richest and most developed dramas in La Comedie 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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