La Cousine Bette
La Cousine Bette est le récit d'une vengeance implacable, celle d'une vieille fille, Lisbeth Fischer, qui travaille à la destruction systématique d'une famille - sa famille. Le poison de jalousie et de haine qu'elle distille répand autour d'elle son venin mortifère ; la toile arachnéenne qu'elle tisse empiège ceux qui ont ouvert la boîte de Pandore de ses passions contrariées. Nul ne sortira indemne de ce thriller réaliste, pas même le lecteur de Balzac, plongé dans un monde gangrené par la bassesse humaine et le pouvoir de l'argent. « La Cousine Bette prendra place à côté de mes grandes oeuvres », prophétisait Balzac en 1846. La postérité lui donne raison : premier volet du diptyque des Parents pauvres, ce récit noir de jais est l'une des cimes de la création romanesque du xixe siècle.
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Honoré de Balzac
Honoré de Balzac (born Honoré Balzac; 20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie humaine, described as a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his magnum opus.
Due to his keen observation of detail and unfiltered representation of society, Balzac is regarded as one of the founders of realism in European literature. He is renowned for his multi-faceted characters; even his lesser characters are complex, morally ambiguous and fully human. Inanimate objects are imbued with character as well; the city of Paris, a backdrop for much of his writing, takes on many human qualities. His writing influenced many famous writers, including the novelists Émile Zola, Charles Dickens, Marcel Proust, Gustave Flaubert, Henry James and Fyodor Dostoevsky, and filmmakers François Truffaut and Jacques Rivette. Many of Balzac's works have been made into films and his work has served as a framework for other writers. James called him "really the father of us all."
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