Eugenie Grandet

by Honore de Balzac

Overview

Romanul Eugenie Grandet este, alaturi de Gobseck, Mos Goriot, Marirea si decaderea lui Cesar Birotteau si Verisoara Bette, una dintre capodoperele balzaciene.

Critica literara si succesul durabil al acestui roman in randul cititorilor, l-au asezat printre cele mai de seama creatii ale realismului francez, deoarece reflecta caracteristicile epocii, goana dupa profituri, dorinta apriga de imbogatire, care fac din societate un soi de jungla, unde razbesc fiintele cele mai feroce si mai lipsite de scrupule.

In mediul burghez de provincie pe care il zugraveste acest roman, ca si in elegantele saloane pariziene descrise in alte romane, domneste puterea banului. Asadar, Eugenie Grandet reflecta nu numai o drama morala individuala, ci o intreaga societate, al carei idol suprem este banul.

Domnia banului - prin avaritia tatalui sau, apoi prin tradarea lui Charles - este cea care o zdrobeste pe Eugenie, condamnand-o la o viata aproape monahala, searbada, lipsita de orice bucurie sau speranta.
Pe langa istorisirea destinului nefericit al acesteia, cititorul remarca, prin informatiile precise asupra epocii, fidelitatea absoluta a lui Balzac fata de realitate; in plus, felul in care marele scriitor judeca si infiereaza aceasta societate avida si mercantila, are cu atat mai multa forta expresiva cu cat el evita tonul indignat, stilul oratoric, ramanand un narator cumpatat si in aparenta obiectiv.

Liliana Anghel

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789731023410
Publisher:	Grupul Editorial Corint
Publication date:	05/20/2011
Series:	Leda Clasic
Sold by:	PUBLISHDRIVE KFT
Format:	eBook
File size:	811 KB
Language:	Romanian

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

	Introduction	vii
	Note on the Text	xxx
	Select Bibliography	xxxi
	A Chronology of Honore de Balzac	xxxii
	Portraits of Bourgeois	3
	The Cousin from Paris	35
	Provincial Love	54
	A Miser's Promises and Lovers' Vows	90
	Family Sorrows	134
	The Way of the World	169
	Explanatory Notes	193

Editorial Reviews

Balzac's 1834 King Lear-esque novel here gets a little fresh air breathed into it by Burton Raffel, who won the 1991 French-American Translation Prize.

Library Journal

"This brilliant but devastatingly sad novel moved me so much, I began it again the moment I got to the end."  —Rose Tremain

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