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Julie, lebensfroh und willensstark, schlägt die Warnungen ihres Vaters in den Wind und heiratet den Offizier Marquis d'Aiglemont. Doch der Triumph über ihre selbstbestimmte Heirat währt nicht lang. Bald erkennt Julie, dass ihr Ehemann zwar rechtschaffen und zuvorkommend aber auch distanziert und sterbenslangweilig ist. Verzweifelt versucht sie ihrem goldenen Käfig zu entfliehen und findet, inzwischen dreißig Jahre alt, Trost in den Armen des Diplomaten Charles de Vandenesse - eine Affäre mit tödlichen Folgen.

Balzac décrit, avec une cruauté réaliste rarement atteinte, la descente aux enfers du malheureux Sylvain Pons, prototype du parent pauvre, compositeur démodé, pique-assiette attendrissant, génial collectionneur de bric-à-brac, et ami du bon Allemand Schmucke. Autour de ces cœurs purs, il construit une impitoyable galerie de portraits : la portière Cibot, l'Auvergnat Rémonencq, l'avocat marron Fraisier, le "tableaumane" juif Elie Magus.

Le jeune Nicolas Poussin, encore inconnu, rend visite au peintre Franz Porbus, le portraitiste officiel du roi Henri IV. Poussin y rencontre le vieux maître Frenhofer. Frenhofer a appris l'art de la peinture auprès des plus grands maîtres, et semble en connaître tous les secrets. Il travaille depuis de longues années sur un mystérieux chef-d'œuvre, qui sera le couronnement de sa carrière. Poussin et Porbus tentent de persuader Frenhofer de leur présenter ce mystérieux chef-d'œuvre.

«Otec Gorio» — odin iz naibolee znachitel'nyh romanov cikla «Chelovecheskaja komedija». Tonkopsihologichnaja, umnaja i vremenami otkrovenno nasmeshlivaja istorija o hanzhestve, religioznom dogmatizme i izvechnom odinochestve umnyh, neobychnyh ljudej, ne vybirajushhih sredstv v bor'be za «mesto pod solncem», napisannaja poltora veka nazad, i sejchas chitaetsja tak, slovno sozdana tol'ko vchera!

സമൂഹജീവിതത്തിന്റെ വിവിധ തലങ്ങളെ യഥാതഥമായി ചിത്രീകരിക്കുന്നവയാണ് ബല്‍സാക്കിന്റെ രചനകള്‍. മനുഷ്യസമൂഹത്തെ...

Whilst faith can be practiced anywhere religious faith is usually at a church or temple. The stories in this volume are centered both in houses of worship and with those with a strong association to its calling. Of course, short story authors have a determined belief in their undoubted talents to make us look at this subject from different angles. In this volume they take us on literary journeys that are revealing and challenging yet always entertaining.

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Un padre despreciado por las hijas que ama. El hecho de que el inquilino en la casa de huespedes de Vauquer, Goriot tenga todo el aspecto de un hombre pobre y abandonado por la fortuna no le impide alardear de que sus dos hijas son, respectivamente una duquesa y una baronesa. El padre las ama, pero las hijas que han subido de posicion social lo ignoran y hasta lo desprecian.

Les Chouans is a gripping historical novel by Balzac, set during the French Revolution. A tale of war, political intrigue, and romance, it follows the conflict between royalist rebels and revolutionaries while exploring themes of loyalty and betrayal.

Balzac’s novel “The Marriage Contract” (1835) is part of his “Scenes of Private Life,” which is one section of “The Human Comedy,” his great fiction series. A wealthy gentleman wishes to marry a beautiful heiress, whose mother is a Spanish Creole. (In this context, “Creole” refers to a person who is genetically European, but born in a New World colony.) As was common for wealthy families of that time, notaries are hired to negotiate a prenuptial agreement. The details of 19th-century financial arrangements may well seem obscure for modern readers. What remains true throughout...

“The Commission in Lunacy” is a short novel first published in 1836 with the French title “L’interdiction” (i.e., “The Ban” or “The Prohibition”). An aristocratic woman wants the courts to declare her estranged husband mentally incompetent to manage his own affairs. To achieve this, the petition must pass through the hands of an examining judge — a man of old-fashioned integrity and conscience. In this story of Parisian society, we see Balzac developing techniques of rich character portrayal and psychological realism. - Summary by Bruce Pirie

Scenes from a Courtesan's Life is one of the last great works completed by Balzac for his huge novel series entitled The Human Comedy. Sections of this book, in various groupings and with various titles, were published between 1838 and 1847. It eventually settled into the four sections found in the present edition. The French title — Splendeurs et misères des courtesanes — literally, Splendors and Miseries of Courtesans — has also been translated as A Harlot High and Low. The story picks up at the end of Lost Illusions (1843), an earlier novel by Balzac. At the end of that book, Lucien ...

Two Poets (1837) is the first book in Balzac’s Lost Illusions trilogy, which is part of his sweeping set of novels collectively titled La Comédie Humaine. The story is set in post-Napoleonic France, when the new bourgeoisie was jostling for position alongside the old aristocracy. We meet Lucien Chardon, a young provincial who romantically aspires to be a poet, and his friend David Séchard, who struggles to manage his father’s printing shop and falls in love with Lucien’s sister Ève. The picture of provincial life that emerges is laced with greed, ambition, and duplicity. Balzac’s ...

Ève and David (1843) is the final book in Balzac’s Lost Illusions trilogy, which is part of his sweeping set of novels collectively titled La Comédie Humaine. The story is set in post-Napoleonic France. In the first volume of the trilogy (Two Poets, 1837), we meet Lucien Chardon, an aspiring poet frustrated by the pettiness of provincial life. In the second volume (A Distinguished Provincial at Paris, 1839) Lucien, now using the more aristocratic-sounding surname "de Rubempré," leaves his family in order to seek fame and fortune in the literary world of Paris. By the end of that book, he ...

Two girls emerge from a convent in order to marry and assume their places in post-Revolutionary French society. Louise is ruled by passion, Renée by pragmatism, and the intimate details of their trials and triumphs are revealed through their correspondence. Letters of Two Brides follows two strong women across the years as they navigate love, friendship, faith, and the conflicting expectations for women in society.

“The Chouans” (1829) was the first novel published under Balzac’s own name (rather than a pen-name). It became the first book in the great work of his lifetime — the novel series titled “The Human Comedy.” Balzac was impressed by the writings of Sir Walter Scott. Scott made Scottish history come alive by creating fictions that used real history as backdrop. Balzac’s novel is set in 1799 — the year that Napoleon became First Consul of France. In the far west of France (i.e., Brittany), anti-revolutionary sentiment still simmered. The Chouans were a rustic guerrilla militia who ...

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. They can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that are difficult to achieve elsewhere. The City of Lights may be one of the glories of the world but for those whose three score and ten have passed it is the final resting place for some of the very finest of literary talents.

"Otec Gorio" (1834-1835), samyy znamenityy roman Bal'zaka, zanimayushchiy central'noe mesto v ego tvorchestve, razvorachivaet pered nami dramu otcovstva, istoriyu bespredel'noy otcovskoy lyubvi k ehgoistichnym i neblagodarnym docheryam. Ego nazyvayut francuzskim "Korolem Lirom". Napisannyy na edinom dyhanii za dvadcat' pyat' dney, po priznaniyu samogo avtora, ehtot roman s potryasayushchey siloy raskryvaet bezdny chelovecheskih strastey, porokov, prestupleniy, demonstriruet bezgranichnuyu vlast' deneg vo francuzskom obshchestve ehpohi Restavracii, hladnokrovnyy raschet i zhestokost', ne dayushchie probit'sya rostkam dobryh chuvstv.

Aus den Tolldreisten Geschichten Balzacs hier die besten: "Die schöne Imperia", "Die Jungfrau von Thilouze", "Der lustige Pfarrer von Azay-le-Rideau", "Die schöne Wäscherin von Pontillon", "Die Fasten König Franz' des Ersten", "Wie eine schöne und tugendsame Frau zur Hure gemacht werden sollte", "Die Hochzeit des Mönchs", "Eine teure Liebesnacht", "Wie das schöne Mädchen von Pontillon seinen Richter überführte", "Missliche Unterhaltung dreier Pilger". Ungekürzt gelesen. Mit dabei: Ein pdf-Dokument mit Trackliste.

Balzacs Meisterwerk als kinoreifes Hörspiel. Paris, Anfang des 19. Jahrhunderts. In der bürgerlichen Pension von Madame Vauquer wohnen sieben Gäste. Darunter der ehemalige Nudelfabrikant Goriot, der von den anderen als Kauz belächelt und spöttisch "Vater Goriot" genannt wird. Eugène de Rastignac, weiterer Pensionsgast und ambitionierter Jurastudent, findet heraus, dass der Grund für Goriots finanzielle Verausgabung seine beiden hübschen verheirateten Töchter sind: Der Alte ist von den beiden nahezu besessen. Hörspielbearbeitung: Helmut Peschina, Regie: Judith Lorentz, Komposition: Lutz Glandien.