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Honoré de Balzac
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| Title | : | Cousin Bette (La Comédie Humaine #56) |
| Author | : | Honoré de Balzac |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 468 pages |
| Published | : | February 12th 2002 by Modern Library (first published 1846) |
| Categories | : | Classics. Fiction. Cultural. France. European Literature. French Literature |
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Poor, plain spinster Bette is compelled to survive on the condescending patronage of her socially superior relatives in Paris: her beautiful, saintly cousin Adeline, the philandering Baron Hulot and their daughter Hortense. Already deeply resentful of their wealth, when Bette learns that the man she is in love with plans to marry Hortense, she becomes consumed by the desire to exact her revenge and dedicates herself to the destruction of the Hulot family, plotting their ruin with patient, silent malice.Cousin Bette is a gripping tale of violent jealousy, sexual passion and treachery, and a brilliant portrayal of the grasping, bourgeois society of 1840's Paris. The culmination of the Comedie humaine, Balzac's epic chronicle of his times, it is one of his greatest triumphs as a novelist.
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| Original Title: | La cousine Bette |
| ISBN: | 0375759077 (ISBN13: 9780375759079) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | La Comédie Humaine #56, Poor Relations, Études de mœurs : Scènes de la vie parisienne , more |
| Characters: | Bette, Valérie Marneffe, Baron Hector Hulot, Wenceslas Steinbock |
| Setting: | Paris(France) |
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My first Balzac. I had the impression, somewhere, that I would have to sit through some dreary pompous horrorshow, perhaps pulpy purple prose with a plethora of prodigious penuries.But to be sure, I did get a horrorshow, but not the kind I expected. Indeed, I had a great time once I fell into a certain kind of groove. You know what I mean. The kind that you get into when reading a good Stephen King novel, revving up with a huge cast of dispicable human beings whom you have a great time rootingI am no literary critic. I will merely try and express what I experienced while reading this book. I am glad I read it, but I admire the author's opus more than I enjoyed it. Honestly, it was often a struggle. It has a very slow start. The book's narrator, after a third of the way through, states that only now will the story begin. All that before had just been an introduction to the characters! That "introduction" doesn't read as a normal introduction; you are thrown into events that you
Lisbeth Fischer is consumed with hatred for her cousin, Adeline Hulot. Cousin Adeline has married a Baron and come up in the world, and Bette is the poor spinster relation, who has to work for part of her living and depends on the charity of the family for the remainder. Cousin Adelines husband, the Baron Hulot, is a despicable womanizer who ruins himself for love, uh make that lust. Nothing to envy in Adelines life at all...Id have rather had the independence of Lisbeth, but then Lisbeth never
I loved this book. And Im taken with the mystery of Balzac. What was he doing? What was his aim? What motivated him?I think that the answer is that Balzac loved to tell stories and he loved to spin them out like a silk scarf being drawn out, and drawn out some more, from a magicians top hat. And he must have loved to talk because his written conversations are so good and because his wit is so delicious. (For example, Vice, Hulot found, could forgive him; vice smiled on him from the midst of
This tale of family passions and intrigue, set in Paris in the 1830s and 1840s, was the first Balzac I've read, and I liked it quite a lot. I found that I enjoyed his sardonic cynicism greatly, even though I disagree with many of his opinions (not myself being quite so cynical as he was, perhaps). To give you a flavor of his writing, here's one of the chapter titles, which are often wry: "Chapter 24. In which chance, which often brings about true romances, makes things go so well that they
I read a couple hundred pages of this and realized I didnt care very much about these awful people and the intricacies of how money bound them all up to one another in such a cynical way. I didnt hate it, but I certainly didnt like it well enough to finish.
Wow. The boring title of the eponymous main character belies the violence within her. Cracking stuff!
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