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Cousin Bette

Autor Honore De Balzac
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 18 mar 2008
Cousin Bette was Balzac's last great novel, and in it he explores power, lust, deception, and revenge. The characters are complex and vividly drawn. Cousin Bette is a woman of breath-taking malice. She plans and executes a diabolic plot of revenge against her own family for slights more imagined than real, destroying herself in the process.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781604592719
ISBN-10: 1604592710
Pagini: 364
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Editura: SMK Books

Notă biografică

Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) was a French novelist, short story writer, playwright, critic, and one of the central figures in the development of literary realism. Born in Tours and later based in Paris, Balzac attempted to capture the full range of French society after the Revolution and under the Restoration and July Monarchy. His vast interconnected sequence La Comédie humaine includes more than ninety novels and stories, presenting bankers, lawyers, aristocrats, journalists, artists, clerks, courtesans, criminals, provincial families, political climbers, and social failures within a single dense fictional world.Balzac's fiction is famous for its appetite: for money, power, desire, ambition, houses, clothes, debts, contracts, reputations, and the hidden mechanisms by which society rewards and destroys people. Works such as Père Goriot, Eugénie Grandet, Lost Illusions, Cousin Pons, and Cousin Bette helped define the modern social novel by showing private life under the pressure of economic and historical forces. Cousin Bette, one of his final major works, displays Balzac's late power at its sharpest: family affection becomes financial strategy, erotic desire becomes social warfare, and revenge moves through Paris with the logic of a business arrangement. For readers of French classics, nineteenth-century realism, psychological fiction, and European social novels, Balzac remains indispensable.