Honoré de Balzac

The Physiology of Marriage (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Musing on the widespread nature of marital infidelity in French life, Honoré de Balzac provides a satirical critique of the institution of marriage and the fraught gender relations between men and women. In a series of meditations, he argues that married women frequently take lovers because they are sheltered too severely before marriage, leading to intense and justifiable unhappiness.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Mint Editions
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781513273297
• Artikelnr.: 61378035

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.