Honore de Balzac

Cousin Bette (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) (eBook, ePUB)

Übersetzer: Wormeley, Katharine Prescott

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Set in Paris, Cousin Bette tells the story of an unmarried middle-aged woman who plots the destruction of her extended family. As in many of Balzac's novels, its characters represent polarities of contrasting morality. Critics hailed the book as a turning point in the author's arta prototypical naturalist text. Written in only two months, it is Balzac's last great work.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Barnes & Noble
• Seitenzahl: 532
• Altersempfehlung: ab 0 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781411458642
• Artikelnr.: 50388881

Autorenporträt

Honoré de Balzac (1799 - 1850) was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie Humaine, which presents a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his magnum opus. Owing 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, Gustave Flaubert, Jack Kerouac, and Henry James, filmmakers Akira Kurosawa and Eric Rohmer as well as important philosophers such as Friedrich Engels. Many of Balzac's works have been made into films and they continue to inspire other writers.