La Duchesse de Langeais
Edition enrichie (Introduction, notes, dossier sur l'oeuvre, chronologie et bibliographie)A l'égal de la princesse de Clèves et de la Sanseverina, la duchesse de Langeais est l'une des grandes divinités féminines de notre littérature. Elle réunit en sa personne le triple prestige de la beauté, de la naissance et du malheur. Issue d'un sang illustre, Antoinette de Navarreins voit le jour en 1794, sous la Terreur, une bien sombre étoile qui sera pour elle la marque du destin. Quelque vingt ans plus tard, séparée de son mari abhorré que lui avait imposé un père indifférent, c'est l'une des gloires mondaines du Faubourg Saint-Germain. Mais que dissimule la coquetterie glacée de cette aristocratique Célimène ? Et par quel étrange sortilège l'incandescente passion d'Armand de Montriveau va-t-elle à son tour la consumer ? Comme tout vrai chef-d'oeuvre, ce «roman noir» - primitivement intitulé «Ne touchez pas à la hache» - est pour partie une autobiographie sublimée, c'est-à-dire le contraire d'un roman à clefs. «Moi seul sais ce qu'il y a d'horrible dans La Duchesse de Langeais», confiait Balzac à l'un de ses proches. C'est pourquoi l'oeuvre conserve, depuis plus d'un siècle et demi, son mystère et sa force de séduction.
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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."
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