La Cousine Bette

Name: La Cousine Bette
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Author: Honoré de Balzac
ISBN: 9782253089315

Honoré de Balzac

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Édition enrichie (Introduction, notes, documents, commentaires sur l'oeuvre, chronologie et bibliographie)Lorsque, en 1846, Balzac publie La Cousine Bette, le roman doit constituer avec Le Cousin Pons le diptyque des Parents pauvres, l'unet l'autre accablés d'injures. Mais à la diffé-rence de Pons, qui sera le vieux musicien plein de coeur, dès l'origine La Cousine Bette devait voir la vieille fille disgraciée se venger de ses douleurs, ce qu'elle fera jusqu'à la ruine des siens.
Le premier projet s'est cependant élargi. Non seulement parce que les amours du baron Hulot vieillissant font de La Cousine Bette un roman érotique, et la dénonciation des affairistes dans le Paris de la monarchie de Juillet un roman de l'argent, mais parce que Balzac, renouvelant ses habitudes narratives pour mieux rivaliser avec les feuilletonistes, écrit là un livre d'action - un livre sombre, aussi, et qui n'écarte ni les ressorts ni les rebondissements du roman noir.

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."