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| Title | : | A Woman Of Thirty (La Comédie Humaine #22) |
| Author | : | Honoré de Balzac |
| Book Format | : | Kindle Edition |
| 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 |
Honoré de Balzac
Kindle Edition | Pages: 146 pages Rating: 3.48 | 3468 Users | 217 Reviews
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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.Mention 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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Ratings: 3.48 From 3468 Users | 217 ReviewsWrite Up Regarding Books A Woman Of Thirty (La Comédie Humaine #22)
Hmm, Part I is not a good start. It's melodramatic and the characterisation is not at all convincing. Julie, Marquise d'Aiglemont, is warned by her father not to marry the dashing officer that she admires when they go to farewell Napoleon's troops but she does and, well, gosh, daddy was right and so is his auntie, the guy is a dolt and a cad. The discovery that he is Not a Nice Man makes Julie take to her bed with the vapours, but somehow she manages to get pregnant and have a child, Helene. ButRead in French.Despite his formidable skills as a novelist, Balzac sometimes misses the mark, and he did with this novel. Nonetheless the book is not without interest. Although the plot is badly fragmented, wildly implausible, and hopelessly discontinuous, it nevertheless portrays an unhappy woman at various periods of her sad life, beginning before she is twenty years old and continuing until she is fifty.Julie first makes a marriage against her fathers will with a dashing but stupid and
Human Comedy #19.Oh Balzac, youre such a frustrating writer. When youre good, youre very very good, but when youre bad youre horrid. And this book contains both aspects.This is one of his philosophical portraits. Which means pages and pages of descriptions of internal life; telling us what someones like rather than showing us. And that is very irritating. For example, were told how witty, clever and captivating Mme dAiglemont is, but never shown any examples of this. Were told how awful the
This is a remarkably uneven piece of literature. On one hand, it focuses on the details of the inner life of a woman with a degree of psychological depth that is impressive. On the other hand, it collapses into nothing short of misogny fairly frequently and about two thirds into the narrative, takes a turn for the romanesque that stretches believability considerably. The one common point that ties everything together is a bounty of expressive power displayed both in vivid descriptions of the
It`s not a textbook describing life after 30. It`s actually a very comprising novel in 6 parts describing Julie`s life, the main character, who makes incorrect choices, ruins her life and unfortunately ruins the life of her children as well. Not all parts are easy to read and I think everyone will agree that the first part is melodramatic and the author is really boring with his interminable and exaggerated descriptions.However, the story is not bad but reading so many pages about a womans
Le femme de trente ans = A Woman Of Thirty, Honore de Balzac, 1832By the French author, who, along with Flaubert, is generally regarded as a founding-father of realism in European fiction. His large output of works, collectively entitled The Human Comedy (La Comedie Humaine), consists of 95 finished works (stories, novels and essays) and 48 unfinished works. His stories are an attempt to comprehend and depict the realities of life in contemporary bourgeois France. They are placed in a variety of
I have mixed feelings about this book (which I'll get to), but I have to admit, it's worthy of the four stars simply for the fact that I think Balzac may have himself actually been a thirty year old woman married to an impotent (intellectually) man, or he tapped directly into the mind of one, the powers of observation expounded by his character in this situation are that dead-on (in my opinion, I hesitate to say experience).It all starts well and good, and then by the second half it (for me)
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