Name: Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes (in French)
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Author: Honoré De Balzac
ISBN: 9781984161901

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Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes (in French)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Honoré De Balzac

De… (fotógrafo)

Peter Lely

Publisher

Createspace

Language

French

Pages

504

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9x15.2x2.6 cm

Weight

0.67 kg.

ISBN13

9781984161901

Synopsis "Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes (in French)"

Un soir de 1824 se donne à l'Opéra un bal masqué. Ancienne courtisane au charme remarquable, Esther Bogseck (dont on découvrira vers la fin du récit qu'elle est en fait Esther Gobseck) s'y rend en compagnie de Lucien Chardon qui se fait appeler Lucien de Rubempré. On l'avait dit ruiné, mais il a payé ses dettes et vit avec Esther. Ses anciens amis ont tôt fait de le reconnaître, mais un singulier personnage qui marche sur les pas de Lucien conseille d'une voix menaçante aux médisants de respecter le jeune homme. En dépit de son masque et de son déguisement, Esther est elle aussi reconnue par les invités et, victime de leurs ricanements et moqueries, elle retourne précipitamment chez elle. Bouleversée, au désespoir, elle tente de mettre fin à ses jours. Elle est sauvée in extremis par l'abbé Carlos Herrera.

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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