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Honoré de Balzac
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| Title | : | A Woman Of Thirty (La Comédie Humaine #22) |
| Author | : | Honoré de Balzac |
| Book Format | : | Ebook |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 146 pages |
| Published | : | 2006 by Hard Press (first published 1834) |
| Categories | : | Classics. Fiction. European Literature. French Literature. Cultural. France. Literature. 19th Century. Novels |
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Our heroine Julie is attending with her ailing father one of Napoleon’s reviews of his troops. It is after the debacle in Russia, but the Old Guard still knows how to put on a show. The lovely young girl is dazzled by Colonel Victor d’Aiglemont, a dashing young adjutant who gallops by. The father notices Julie’s fascination and shakes his head anxiously, knowing that the young man is unworthy of her.Point Books Supposing A Woman Of Thirty (La Comédie Humaine #22)
| Original Title: | La Femme de trente ans |
| ISBN: | 1406951277 (ISBN13: 9781406951271) |
| Series: | La Comédie Humaine #22 |
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This book is interesting to think about now that I am reading Rousseau and understands the dialog Balzac set out with La Nouvelle Héloïse. However, his reinterpretation of Julies character and condition is merely potentially interesting; and that potentiality soon evaporates as it is constantly impeded by the prudishness of the overall story. Where Rousseau is endearingly saccharine and monodic, while espousing a refreshing direction when it comes down to representing desire, Balzac fumblesA devastating portrait of a woman's life trapped by marriage and slowly disintegrating due the social constraints placed on wives who are essentially prisoners of their husbands and beholden to their required social and familial duties. Balzac drives home this theme of "duty over happiness" in the final chapter. Although dreaming of an ideal love, Julie is forced to remain faithful in a loveless marriage with a double standard, where the husband is allowed the freedom to stray (in more ways than
nay nay, definitely not the best Balzac could do. I dearly love his writing style: you feel as if he knew everything there is to know about human nature. But in A Woman of Thirty his writing tone sometimes falls into a simple condition of 'I-Know-All-About-Women-And-What-They-Feel'. Pft. Pft. Pft.And that bit about pirates? And Julie's daughter falling for a man with a single glance? Honoré, you can do better than that.
Was interesting but the story was a bit disperse
This book is like a log hut with chandeliers: its' rough edges and obvious imperfections coexist with a scattered collection of small literary masterpieces; intricate psychological analysis and wisdom mixed with outrageous assumptions and unfounded ideas; tragic situations filled with comic absurd. Did Balzac mean to write a play but changed it into a novel? Did he accumulate a large collection of brilliant notes and thoughts which he one day, due to some kind of a need, quickly glued together
Im disappointed with this book. I expected way more from Balzac. I already knew it was far from being considered one of his best efforts and I also knew this was not the best way to introduce someone to his writings. But even with these low expectations I was pleasantly surprised when I found myself enjoying the first parts of the book. Balzac really tries to give a voice to women in general, and even though he is still influenced by the prejudices of his times, he does it better than many
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