Honoré de Balzac

Cousin Bette (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Bette Fischer, a bitter and contemptuous woman, seeks to embroil her extended family in a series of romantic scandals. With the help of Valérie Marneffe, a beautiful and willing accomplice, she plays on the weaknesses and desires of her victims in order not only to expose their vanity and egotism, but to excuse her own. Cousin Bette, arguably the final great work by master novelist Honoré de Balzac, is an intensely emotional work of fiction that exposes with its realist lens the often brutal nature of human relationships.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Mint Editions
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781513273259
• Artikelnr.: 61270215

Autorenporträt

Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) was a French novelist, short story writer, and playwright. Regarded as one of the key figures of French and European literature, Balzac's realist approach to writing would influence Charles Dickens, Émile Zola, Henry James, Gustave Flaubert, and Karl Marx. With a precocious attitude and fierce intellect, Balzac struggled first in school and then in business before dedicating himself to the pursuit of writing as both an art and a profession. His distinctly industrious work routine-he spent hours each day writing furiously by hand and made extensive edits during the publication process-led to a prodigious output of dozens of novels, stories, plays, and novellas. La Comédie humaine, Balzac's most famous work, is a sequence of 91 finished and 46 unfinished stories, novels, and essays with which he attempted to realistically and exhaustively portray every aspect of French society during the early-nineteenth century.