La Bourse

Name: La Bourse
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1832. La Comédie humaine - Études de moeurs. Premier livre, Scènes de la vie privée - Tome I. Premier volume de l'édition Furne 1842
Hippolyte Schinner, jeune artiste peintre, fait une chute dans son atelier. Il se réveille entouré de ses deux voisines, madame de Rouville et sa fille, Adélaïde. Devenu habitué de leur maison, Hippolyte découvre leur vie de misère et rencontre d'étonnants personnages qui, tous les soirs, viennent perdre de l'argent au jeu. Un soir, Hippolyte oublie sa bourse. Adélaïde dit ne pas l'avoir trouvé, il doute de la moralité de ses deux voisines...
Cette nouvelle de Balzac est une peinture de personnages vivant en huis-clos, pour lesquels le temps semble s'être arrêté, mais également la peinture délicate d'un amour naissant, avec ses moments de joie, et de doute.

Honoré de Balzac

Honoré de Balzac (born Honoré Balzac; 20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie humaine, described as a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his magnum opus. 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 writers, including the novelists Émile Zola, Charles Dickens, Marcel Proust, Gustave Flaubert, Henry James and Fyodor Dostoevsky, and filmmakers François Truffaut and Jacques Rivette. Many of Balzac's works have been made into films and his work has served as a framework for other writers. James called him "really the father of us all."