Cousin Betty & Cousin Pons (Annotated)

di Honore de Balzac (Autore)

Stellan Hatherley (Autore)

Ellen Marriage (Traduttore)

e-artnow, 2019

Cousin Betty and Cousin Pons, the paired novels of Balzac's late diptych Les Parents pauvres, anatomize Parisian family life under the July Monarchy with pitiless precision. In Cousin Betty, resentment, erotic intrigue, and financial speculation converge in a drama of revenge; in Cousin Pons, innocence and aesthetic devotion are exploited by a world governed by inheritance, appetite, and calculation. Balzac's dense realism, melodramatic architecture, and encyclopedic social observation place these works among the culminating achievements of La Comédie humaine. Honoré de Balzac, formed by journalism, failed business ventures, and a lifelong fascination with money, power, and social mobility, brought to these novels an unusually intimate knowledge of ambition's costs. Writing in the 1840s, physically exhausted yet imaginatively prodigious, he distilled decades of observation into portraits of bourgeois rapacity, aristocratic decline, and the moral pressures of urban modernity. This volume is essential for readers seeking Balzac at his most mature and unsparing. It will reward those interested in nineteenth-century realism, the psychology of envy, the economics of kinship, and the dark comedy of social performance. This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience. - A comprehensive Introduction outlines these selected works' unifying features, themes, or stylistic evolutions. - The Author Biography highlights personal milestones and literary influences that shape the entire body of writing. - A Historical Context section situates the works in their broader era—social currents, cultural trends, and key events that underpin their creation. - A concise Synopsis (Selection) offers an accessible overview of the included texts, helping readers navigate plotlines and main ideas without revealing critical twists.

• Autore: Honore de Balzac, Stellan Hatherley
• Traduttore: Ellen Marriage
• Curatore: e-artnow
• Anno edizione: 2019
• Editore: e-artnow
• Formato: EPUB2 con Adobe DRM
• Lingua: Inglese
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 4057664556523