The Death Of Balzac
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The Death Of Balzac
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Author : Octave Mirbeau
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-04-02
The Death Of Balzac written by Octave Mirbeau and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-02 with categories.
Here, presented in English for the first time in a translation by Brian Stableford, is one of Octave Mirbeau's darkest works: a fictionalized account of the death of the giant of French letters, -HonorE de Balzac. Among his journalistic endeavors, Mirbeau contributed a large number of short stories to the newspapers in the fin-de-siEcle period, and he honed his skill in that kind of work to near-perfection. Many of his anecdotal short stories make the customary tokenistic pretences to be "true," and there is a considerable gray area between his explicit works of fiction, and articles that represent themselves falsely as reportage. None of his other impostures of that -ambiguous kind, however, are quite as brazen or as seductively -persuasive in their deception as the triptych making up The Death of Balzac, which, seen purely as a literary exercise, is a masterpiece of sorts, in terms of the persuasiveness of its mendacious execution and the elegance of its narration. It is a gripping and affectively powerful story, artful in its very atrocity; a prime specimen of the work of an exceptional writer.
The Death Of Balzac 1799 1850 And The Treatment Of Heart Failure During The Nineteenth Century
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Author : Antonio Perciaccante
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
The Death Of Balzac 1799 1850 And The Treatment Of Heart Failure During The Nineteenth Century written by Antonio Perciaccante and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with categories.
The Poetics Of Death
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Author : Beatrice Martina Guenther
language : en
Publisher: SUNY Press
Release Date : 1996-07-12
The Poetics Of Death written by Beatrice Martina Guenther and has been published by SUNY Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-07-12 with Literary Criticism categories.
Discusses literary representations of death to explore the relation between writing and death--death understood as both the death of the individual and the death of meaning.
A Memoir Of Honor De Balzac
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1892
A Memoir Of Honor De Balzac written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1892 with Authors, French categories.
Biography of Balzac, a French novelist and playwright.
Balzac And Violence
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Author : Owen Heathcote
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang
Release Date : 2009
Balzac And Violence written by Owen Heathcote and has been published by Peter Lang this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Literary Criticism categories.
Violence is one of the main themes in the novels of Hanore de Balza. Executions, muders, savagery and death accompany the conspiracies and the turbulence that characterise his post-Revolutionary times, from the terror to Napoleonic campaigns and then to the upheavals of 1830 and 1848. Despite the importance of violence in Balzac, this is the first book-length study of the topic. The book begins by tracing the links between violence and Balzac's approach to the novel, not merely in terms of violent content, but, equally importantly, in terms of the form associated with that content. From and content combine to perpetuate and naturalise violence and suffering. After charting examples of this combination in one of Balzac's earliest fictions, the books moves on to the links between violence and place violence and history (Catherine de Medicis; the Terror), between violence and place(from his native Touraine to sickness in Paris), and between violence and gender/sexuality. It alos examines the representiation of violence in the form of spoken or written death. Throughout the analysis, the bokk asks the following question: do Balzac's novels reinforce or counteract the literary text's apparent love-affair with violence?
The Fatal Skin
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Author : Honoré de Balzac
language : en
Publisher: Signet Classics
Release Date : 1949
The Fatal Skin written by Honoré de Balzac and has been published by Signet Classics this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1949 with Fiction categories.
Set in early 19th-century Paris, it tells the story of a young man who finds a magic piece of shagreen that fulfills his every desire. For each wish granted, however, the skin shrinks and consumes a portion of his physical energy. Bent on killing himself by throwing himself into the Seine after losing his shirt at the gaming tables, Raphael de Valentin, the romanticised, doomed young hero of Balzac's early novel, 'La Peau de chagrin' (1831), turns into an antiques shop to while away the hours till darkness (when he can be sure not to be rescued). There he finds himself in an emporium of civilisation's treasures, from all over the world and in every marvellous material, executed to the highest degree of human art. Eventually, the eerie, wizened keeper appears and shows Valentin the magic skin which gives the novel its title. It's the hide of a wild ass and, like the ring of the Nibelungen, has the power to grant its owner every wish. But in return it will take possession of Valentin, body and soul. Every time it performs, it will shrink and Valentin's life will shorten in accord.
The Hated Son
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Author : Honore de Balzac
language : en
Publisher: 谷月社
Release Date : 2015-12-28
The Hated Son written by Honore de Balzac and has been published by 谷月社 this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-28 with Fiction categories.
CHAPTER I. A BEDROOM OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY On a winter's night, about two in the morning, the Comtesse Jeanne d'Herouville felt such violent pains that in spite of her inexperience, she was conscious of an approaching confinement; and the instinct which makes us hope for ease in a change of posture induced her to sit up in her bed, either to study the nature of these new sufferings, or to reflect on her situation. She was a prey to cruel fears,—caused less by the dread of a first lying-in, which terrifies most women, than by certain dangers which awaited her child. In order not to awaken her husband who was sleeping beside her, the poor woman moved with precautions which her intense terror made as minute as those of a prisoner endeavoring to escape. Though the pains became more and more severe, she ceased to feel them, so completely did she concentrate her own strength on the painful effort of resting her two moist hands on the pillow and so turning her suffering body from a posture in which she could find no ease. At the slightest rustling of the huge green silk coverlet, under which she had slept but little since her marriage, she stopped as though she had rung a bell. Forced to watch the count, she divided her attention between the folds of the rustling stuff and a large swarthy face, the moustache of which was brushing her shoulder. When some noisier breath than usual left her husband's lips, she was filled with a sudden terror that revived the color driven from her cheeks by her double anguish. The prisoner reached the prison door in the dead of night and trying to noiselessly turn the key in a pitiless lock, was never more timidly bold.
The Country Doctor
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Author : Honore de Balzac
language : en
Publisher: 谷月社
Release Date : 2015-12-28
The Country Doctor written by Honore de Balzac and has been published by 谷月社 this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-28 with Fiction categories.
In hardly any of his books, with the possible exception of Eugenie Grandet, does Balzac seem to have taken a greater interest than inLe Medecin de Campagne; and the fact of this interest, together with the merit and intensity of the book in each case, is, let it be repeated, a valid argument against those who would have it that there was something essentially sinister both in his genius and his character. Le Medecin de Campagne was an early book; it was published in 1833, a date of which there is an interesting mark in the selection of the name "Evelina," the name of Madame Hanska, whom Balzac had just met, for the lost Jansenist love of Benassis; and it had been on the stocks for a considerable time. It is also noteworthy, as lying almost entirely outside the general scheme of the Comedie Humaine as far as personages go. Its chief characters in the remarkable, if not absolutely impeccable, repertoire of MM. Cerfberr and Christophe (they have, a rare thing with them, missed Agathe the forsaken mistress) have no references appended to their articles, except to the book itself; and I cannot remember that any of the more generally pervading dramatis personae of the Comedy makes even an incidental appearance here. The book is as isolated as its scene and subject—I might have added, as its own beauty, which is singular and unique, nor wholly easy to give a critical account of. The transformation of the cretin-haunted desert into a happy valley is in itself a commonplace of the preceding century; it may be found several times over in Marmontel's Contes Moraux, as well as in other places. The extreme minuteness of detail, effective as it is in the picture of the house and elsewhere, becomes a little tedious even for well-tried and well-affected readers, in reference to the exact number of cartwrights and harness-makers, and so forth; while the modern reader pure and simple, though schooled to endure detail, is schooled to endure it only of the ugly. The minor characters and episodes, with the exception of the wonderful story or legend of Napoleon by Private Goguelat, and the private himself, are neither of the first interest, nor always carefully worked out: La Fosseuse, for instance, is a very tantalizingly unfinished study, of which it is nearly certain that Balzac must at some time or other have meant to make much more than he has made; Genestas, excellent as far as he goes, is not much more than a type; and there is nobody else in the foreground at all except the Doctor himself. It is, however, beyond all doubt in the very subordination of these other characters to Benassis, and in the skilful grouping of the whole as background and adjunct to him, that the appeal of the book as art consists. From that point of view there are grounds for regarding it as the finest of the author's work in the simple style, the least indebted to super-added ornament or to mere variety. The dangerous expedient of a recit, of which the eighteenth-century novelists were so fond, has never been employed with more successful effect than in the confession of Benassis, at once the climax and the centre of the story. And one thing which strikes us immediately about this confession is the universality of its humanity and its strange freedom from merely national limitations. To very few French novelists—to few even of those who are generally credited with a much softer mould and a much purer morality than Balzac is popularly supposed to have been able to boast—would inconstancy to a mistress have seemed a fault which could be reasonably punished, which could be even reasonably represented as having been punished in fact, by the refusal of an honest girl's love in the first place. Nor would many have conceived as possible, or have been able to represent in lifelike colors, the lifelong penance which Benassis imposes on himself. The tragic end, indeed, is more in their general way, but they would seldom have known how to lead up to it.
Honor De Balzac Scenes Of Parisian Life
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Author : Honoré de Balzac
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1896
Honor De Balzac Scenes Of Parisian Life written by Honoré de Balzac and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1896 with categories.
The Deserted Woman
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Author : Honoré de Balzac
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2022-09-16
The Deserted Woman written by Honoré de Balzac and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-16 with Fiction categories.
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Deserted Woman" by Honoré de Balzac. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.