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Author : Honore De Balzac
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Cousin Bette written by Honore De Balzac and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Honoré de Balzac
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Cousin Betty written by Honoré de Balzac and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Honoré de Balzac
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book The Comédie Humaine written by Honoré de Balzac and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Honoré de Balzac
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0140441603
Total Pages : 479 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Cousin Bette written by Honoré de Balzac and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1965 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the Hulot family. Risen to eminence under Napoleon 1, their aristocratic values leave them bewildered and vulnerable in the money-ridden burgeois Paris of the 1840s. It is also the story of Bette herself, the poor relation whose patient malice finally leads to their demise.
Author : Michael Lucey
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822385163
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)
Download or read book The Misfit of the Family written by Michael Lucey and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2003-08-25 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In more than ninety novels and novellas, Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) created a universe teeming with over two thousand characters. The Misfit of the Family reveals how Balzac, in imagining the dense, vividly rendered social world of his novels, used his writing as a powerful means to understand and analyze—as well as represent—a range of forms of sexuality. Moving away from the many psychoanalytic approaches to the novelist's work, Michael Lucey contends that in order to grasp the full complexity with which sexuality was understood by Balzac, it is necessary to appreciate how he conceived of its relation to family, history, economics, law, and all the many structures within which sexualities take form. The Misfit of the Family is a compelling argument that Balzac must be taken seriously as a major inventor and purveyor of new tools for analyzing connections between the sexual and the social. Lucey’s account of the novelist’s deployment of "sexual misfits" to impel a wide range of his most canonical works—Cousin Pons, Cousin Bette, Eugenie Grandet, Lost Illusions, The Girl with the Golden Eyes—demonstrates how even the flexible umbrella term "queer" barely covers the enormous diversity of erotic and social behaviors of his characters. Lucey draws on the thinking of Michel Foucault and Pierre Bourdieu and engages the work of critics of nineteenth-century French fiction, including Naomi Schor, D. A. Miller, Franco Moretti, and others. His reflections on Proust as Balzac’s most cannily attentive reader suggest how the lines of social and erotic force he locates in Balzac’s work continued to manifest themselves in twentieth-century writing and society.
Author : Sarah Schulman
Publisher : The Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN 13 : 1558619054
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (586 download)
Download or read book The Cosmopolitans written by Sarah Schulman and published by The Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 2016-02-22 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “captivating, perceptive, and empathic novel of New York” told with “panache and mischievous ebullience” (Booklist, starred review). In this retelling of Balzac’s Parisian classic Cousin Bette, Sarah Shulman spins her revenge story in Mad Men–era New York City. Bette, a lonely spinster, has worked as a secretary at an ad agency for thirty years. Her only real friend is her apartment neighbor Earl, a black, gay actor with a miserable job in a meatpacking plant. Shamed and disowned by their families, both find refuge in New York and in their friendship. Everything changes when Hortense, Bette’s wealthy niece from Ohio, moves to the city to pursue her own acting career. Her arrival reminds Bette of her scandalous past and the estranged Midwestern family she left behind. When Hortense’s calculating ambitions cause a rift between Bette and Earl, Bette uses her connections in the television ad world to destroy those who have wronged her. Textured with the grit and gloss of midcentury Manhattan in the days before the Civil Rights and Feminist Movements, The Cosmopolitans “balance[s] the hopes of an entire era on the backs of a fragile relationship. . . . Jarring and beautiful, this is a modern classic” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).
Author : Benjamin Fondane
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1590178998
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Existential Monday written by Benjamin Fondane and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2016-05-17 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Benjamin Fondane—who was born and educated in Romania, moved as an adult to Paris, lived for a time in Buenos Aires, where he was close to Victoria Ocampo, Jorge Luis Borges’s friend and publisher, and died in Auschwitz—was an artist and thinker who found in every limit, in every border, “a torture and a spur.” Poet, critic, man of the theater, movie director, Fondane was the most daring of the existentialists, a metaphysical anarchist, affirming individual against those great abstractions that limit human freedom—the State, History, the Law, the Idea. Existential Monday, the first selection of his philosophical work to appear in English, includes four of Fondane's most thought-provoking and important texts, "Existential Monday and the Sunday of History," "Preface for the Present Moment," "Man Before History" (co-translated by Andrew Rubens), and "Boredom." Here Fondane, until now little-known except to specialists, emerges as one of the enduring French philosophers of the twentieth century.
Author : Honore de Balzac
Publisher : The Floating Press
ISBN 13 : 1776539214
Total Pages : 19 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (765 download)
Download or read book A Passion in the Desert written by Honore de Balzac and published by The Floating Press. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During Napoleon's campaign in Egypt, one French soldier becomes separated from his regiment and finds himself wandering lost in the desert. Just when he has given up all hope, he makes an unlikely friend. This highly allegorical short story gives readers an opportunity to ponder the nature of love and human relationships.
Author : Honoré de Balzac
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199553947
Total Pages : 529 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)
Download or read book Cousin Bette written by Honoré de Balzac and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-08-14 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cousin Bette (1846), long considered Balzac's last great novel, is a key work in his Comedie humaine. Grounded in a meticulous documentation of contemporary France, this tale is set in the prosperous Paris of Louis-Phillipe and details a jealous woman's campaign of persecution against her own family. This new translation has an introduction by David Bellos which sets this work in its social, historical, and literary context.
Author : Honoré de Balzac
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book ... Cousin Bette written by Honoré de Balzac and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Honoré de Balzac
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 958 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Cousin Bette. Bueaucracy written by Honoré de Balzac and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 958 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bright Summaries
Publisher : BrightSummaries.com
ISBN 13 : 280628788X
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (62 download)
Download or read book Cousin Bette by Honoré de Balzac (Book Analysis) written by Bright Summaries and published by BrightSummaries.com. This book was released on 2016-11-09 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlock the more straightforward side of Cousin Bette with this concise and insightful summary and analysis! This engaging summary presents an analysis of Cousin Bette by Honoré de Balzac, which tells the story of a woman driven by jealousy to try and destroy her cousin’s family by any means possible. Along with her beautiful but malicious friend, Bette schemes to push the Hulot family into infidelity, betrayal and financial ruin. Cousin Bette stands out for its realism, with vivid descriptions of its cast of characters and a perceptive examination of the social changes taking place in 19th-century Paris. The novel is one of the Scenes of Parisian Life in Balzac’s The Human Comedy, a hugely ambitious series of around 90 novels and novellas which aimed to depict the entirety of 19th-century French society. Honoré de Balzac was one of France’s most prolific and influential writers, and his work played a major part in laying the groundwork for the modern realist novel. Find out everything you need to know about Cousin Bette in a fraction of the time! This in-depth and informative reading guide brings you: • A complete plot summary • Character studies • Key themes and symbols • Questions for further reflection Why choose BrightSummaries.com? Available in print and digital format, our publications are designed to accompany you in your reading journey. The clear and concise style makes for easy understanding, providing the perfect opportunity to improve your literary knowledge in no time. See the very best of literature in a whole new light with BrightSummaries.com!
Author : Honoré de Balzac
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 610 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book The poor relations: v.25. Cousin Bette written by Honoré de Balzac and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Honoré de Balzac
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 654 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The poor relations: v. 25. Cousin Bette. v. 26. Cousin Pons written by Honoré de Balzac and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Honore de Balzac
Publisher : The Floating Press
ISBN 13 : 1775418529
Total Pages : 724 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (754 download)
Download or read book Cousin Bette written by Honore de Balzac and published by The Floating Press. This book was released on 2010-08-01 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The crown jewel in a remarkable literary career, Cousin Bette is regarded by many critics to be Balzac's last great work before his death in 1850. A fine example of European realist fiction, the story recounts the attempt of a disgruntled housewife to bring about the misery and destruction of her entire extended family. Fans of Tolstoy's War and Peace will enjoy Cousin Bette.
Author : Honoré de Balzac
Publisher : e-artnow
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (57 download)
Download or read book The Magic Skin (French Literature Classic) written by Honoré de Balzac and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2019-12-18 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young man named Raphaël de Valentin wagers his last coin and loses, then proceeds to the river Seine to drown himself. On the way, however, he decides to enter an unusual shop and finds it filled with curiosities from around the world. The elderly shopkeeper leads him to a piece of shagreen hanging on the wall. It is inscribed with "Oriental" writing; the old man calls it "Sanskrit", but it is imprecise Arabic. The skin promises to fulfill any wish of its owner, shrinking slightly upon the fulfillment of each desire. The shopkeeper is willing to let Valentin take it without charge, but urges him not to accept the offer. Valentin waves away the shopkeeper's warnings and takes the skin, wishing for a royal banquet, filled with wine, women, and friends. He is immediately met by acquaintances who invite him to such an event; they spend hours eating, drinking, and talking. But his actions must meet consequences. For each wish granted, the skin shrinks and consumes a portion of his physical energy.
Author : Tove Ditlevsen
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374605610
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (746 download)
Download or read book The Trouble with Happiness written by Tove Ditlevsen and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Trouble with Happiness is a powerful new collection of short stories by Tove Ditlevsen, "a terrifying talent" (Parul Sehgal, New York Times). A newly married woman longs, irrationally, for a silk umbrella; a husband chases away his wife’s beloved cat; a betrayed mother impulsively sacks her housekeeper. Underneath the surface of these precisely observed tales of marriage and family life in mid-century Copenhagen pulse currents of desire, violence, and despair, as women and men struggle to escape from the roles assigned to them and dream of becoming free and happy—without ever truly understanding what that might mean. Tove Ditlevsen is one of Denmark’s most famous and beloved writers, and her autobiographical Copenhagen Trilogy was hailed as a masterpiece on re-publication in English, lauded for its wry humor, limpid prose, and powerful honesty. The poignant and understated stories in The Trouble with Happiness, written in the 1950s and 1960s and never before translated into English, offer readers a new chance to encounter the quietly devastating work of this essential twentieth-century writer.
