Eugenie Grandet - Couverture souple

Balzac, Honore De

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0451002822 ISBN 13 : 9780451002822

Editeur : New American Library

Synopsis

EUGENIE GRANDET de BALZAC 1964 Garnier

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Présentation de l'éditeur :

This is the question that fills the minds of the inhabitants of Saumur, the setting for Eugénie Grandet, one of the earliest and most famous novels in Balzac’s Comédie humaine. The Grandet household, oppressed by the exacting miserliness of Grandet himself, is jerked violently out of routine by the sudden arrival of Eugénie’s cousin Charles, recently orphaned and penniless. Eugénie’s emotional awakening, stimulated by her love for her cousin, brings her into direct conflict with her father, whose cunning and financial success are matched against her determination to rebel. Eugénie’s moving story is set against the backdrop of provincial oppression, the vicissitudes of the wine trade, and the workings of the financial system in the aftermath of the French Revolution. It is both a poignant portrayal of private life and a vigorous fictional document of its age. Honoré de Balzac was a French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of almost 100 novels and plays collectively entitled La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the fall of Napoléon Bonaparte in 1815. Due to his keen observation of detail and unfiltered representation of society, Balzac is regarded as one of the founders of realism in European literature. He is renowned for his multi-faceted characters; even his lesser characters are complex, morally ambiguous and fully human. Inanimate objects are imbued with character as well; the city of Paris, a backdrop for much of his writing, takes on many human qualities. His writing influenced many famous authors, including the novelists Marcel Proust, Émile Zola, Charles Dickens, Gustave Flaubert, Marie Corelli, Henry James, Jack Kerouac, and Italo Calvino as well as important philosophers such as Friedrich Engels. Many of Balzac’s works have been made into films, and they continue to inspire other writers. Before and during his career as a writer, he attempted to be a publisher, printer, businessman, critic, and politician. He failed in all of these efforts. La Comédie Humaine reflects his real-life difficulties, and includes scenes from his own experience. Balzac suffered from health problems throughout his life, possibly due to his intense writing schedule and died in 1850

Quatrième de couverture :

Enfin arrivèrent les jours d'agonie, pendant lesquels la forte charpente du bonhomme fut aux prises avec la destruction. Il attirait à lui et roulait toutes les couvertures que l'on mettait sur lui, et disait à Nanon : " Serre, serre ça, pour qu'on ne me vole pas. " Quand il pouvait ouvrir les yeux, il les tournait aussitôt vers la porte du cabinet où gisaient ses trésors en disant à sa fille : - Y sont-ils ? y sont-ils ? - Oui, mon père. - Veille à l'or, mets de l'or devant moi. Eugénie lui étendait des louis sur une table, et il demeurait des heures entières les yeux attachés sur les louis. - Ça me réchauffe ! disait-il.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: New American Library
• ISBN 10: 0451002822
• ISBN 13: 9780451002822
• Reliure: Broché