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"Olağanüstü... Balzac'ın, gerçekliğin sonsuz arayışı içindeki ressamı, sonunda kapkara bir belirsizliğin ortasında buluyor kendini. O kadar çok gerçeklik var ki, insan hepsini kucaklayayım derken karanlıkta buluyor kendini..."Pablo PicassoBalzac, en ünlü yapıtlarından biri olan Gizli...

Balçıkta debelenen küçük bir "fare"ydi, hamurunda yosmalık vardı gelecek vaat eden. Henüz eğitimle bozulmamıştı, okuma yazması yoktu. Çok güzeldi. Gübrenin içinde açan bir zambaktı... Çiçek tanrıçası Flora kadar güzel... Rüzgâr tanrısı Zephyros gibi yakışıklı Lucien'e...

La Cousine Bette (English: Cousin Bette) is an 1846 novel by Honoré de Balzac. It has been adapted for film or television at least four times, including a 1998 movie starring Jessica Lange.Le Cousin Pons is a novel by Honoré de Balzac written in 1847. It is considered Part Two of Poor Relations, Part...

Many readers have long considered Balzac to be perhaps the greatest of all novelists. Eugénie Grandet, his masterful study of a girl whose life is scarred by her father's insane greed, goes a long way to justifying that opinion. World literature has some memorable cold-hearted...

The Library of Alexandria is an independent small business publishing house. We specialize in bringing back to live rare, historical and ancient Books. This includes manuscripts such as: classical fiction, philosophy, science, Religion, folklore, mythology, history, literature, politics and sacred texts,...

Les Celibataires, the longest number of the original Comedie Humaine under a single title, next to Illusions perdues, is not, like that book, connected by any unity of story. Indeed, the general bond of union is pretty weak; and though it is quite true that bachelors and old maids are the heroes and...

Les Celibataires, the longest number of the original Comedie Humaine under a single title, next to Illusions perdues, is not, like that book, connected by any unity of story. Indeed, the general bond of union is pretty weak; and though it is quite true that bachelors and old maids are the heroes and...

These choice selections from Honoré de Balzac's Droll Stories offer a lively and lusty portrait of sixteenth-century French life and manners. Told in the tradition of Boccaccio, Chaucer, and Rabelais, they allegedly originated in manuscripts from the abbeys of Touraine. Originally published in three...

Dans une auberge au bord du Rhin sont réunis par le hasard deux jeunes Français et un riche négociant allemand qui passent une agréable soirée avant d'aller se coucher. Au petit matin, on retrouve le négociant décapité... Dans les brumes de l'Allemagne romantique, l'inspecteur Balzac mène l'enquête !

Part of Balzac's masterpiece, the multi-volume story cycle The Human Comedy, the short story "Study of a Woman" focuses on Madame de Listomere, an uptight model of propriety, who finds herself being flirted with by the rapscallion Eugene de Rastignac, who has taken up the courtship as a lark.

Et c’est à moi que tu le demandes, répondit en riant le chasseur couché dans les hautes herbes jaunes qui couronnaient le talus. Il jeta le bout de son cigare dans le fossé, en s’écriant : ? Je jure par saint Hubert qu’on ne me reprendra plus à m’aventurer...

Et qui le sait trop, répondit tout haut sa compagne qui était laide. Après un tour de galerie, le jeune homme regarda tour à tour le ciel et sa montre, fit un geste d’impatience, entra dans un bureau de tabac, y alluma un cigare, se posa devant une glace, et jeta un regard...

Dünya edebiyatının en büyük romancılarından Balzac, romanlarında yarattığı karakterle yaşıyordu. Onlarla konuşuyor, zaferleriyle çıldırıyor, ölümleriyle kahroluyordu. Onlar, Balzac için gerçekti. Balzac'ı edebiyat tarihinin klasikleri arasına yerleştiren de bu gerçekçiliği...