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The Human Comedy, Vol. I: At the Sign of The Cat & Racket and Other Works
2009, Noumena Press
Trade paperback
in English
0976706202 9780976706205
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“The idea of The Human Comedy . . . originated in a comparison between Humanity and Animality.”
A painter’s greatest masterpiece is inspired by a young girl of angelic beauty, but their resulting marriage only serves to reveal the deep divide between their true natures . . . a haughty young demoiselle, the last child to marry from an old noble family, is raised to be all too discerning in her choice of a future husband, with tragic consequences . . . a lifelong correspondence between two young women illustrates their different ideas about love and marriage–one valuing romance and excitement, the other marital duty–but as they begin to live out their philosophies of love and life, one thrives and prospers as a wife and mother while the other is slowly consumed by jealousy . . .
The works in this volume--At the Sign of The Cat & Racket, The Ball at Sceaux, and Letters of Two Brides--are preceded by an introduction in which Balzac sets forth the history of the project and explains his principles of composition.
La Comédie Humaine, left unfinished at the time of Balzac’s death, is a vast literary work comprising nearly one hundred short stories, novellas, and novels set in the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars during the Bourbon Restoration and the July Monarchy. Throughout, Balzac utilizes nineteenth century French society to examine humanity and the human experience with all its attendant virtues, vices, and peculiarities.
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