Name: Les employés: ou la femme supérieure (in French)
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Author: Honoré De Balzac
ISBN: 9781505277883

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Les employés: ou la femme supérieure (in French)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Honoré De Balzac

Publisher

Createspace

Language

French

Pages

212

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9 x 15.2 x 1.1 cm

Weight

0.29 kg.

ISBN13

9781505277883

Synopsis "Les employés: ou la femme supérieure (in French)"

Dans les bureaux d'un ministère, Xavier Rabourdin postule au titre de chef de division, estimant mériter cette promotion par son ancienneté et son mérite. Poussé par sa femme Célestine (la Femme supérieure) il se lance dans un grand projet de réforme administrative, qui, pense-t-il, lui vaudra un bel avancement. Toutefois un autre chef de bureau, soutenu par un cercle petit bourgeois médiocres et comploteurs qui poussent sa candidature pour faire avancer leurs intérêts personnels, aspire au même poste: Isidore Baudoyer. Ce dernier est également aiguillonné par l'ambition de sa femme, Élisabeth. La bataille va donc se jouer entre les deux femmes qui organisent chacune leur plan et réunissent leurs partisans en deux clans bien distincts. Célestine Rabourdin a sur sa rivale un avantage non négligeable: le comte des Lupeaulx, secrétaire général du ministère, lui fait la cour. Mais le parti de la médiocratie (les petits-bourgeois) est tenace, minant patiemment les efforts du clan Rabourdin, creusant avec obstination le chemin de Baudoyer, si bien que celui-ci finit par l'emporter son rival Rabourdin qui donne sa démission tout en assurant à sa femme qu'il a un nouveau projet, grandiose, pour combler ses ambitions.

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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