Agathe Bridau, veuve en charge de ses deux fils, peine à subvenir aux besoins de la famille : ruinée par son aîné, enfant chéri de la fratrie, mais terriblement dépensier, elle ne peut guère compter sur son cadet qui, malgré son grand coeur, n'est qu'un peintre démuni. Agathe quitte donc Paris pour sa ville natale d'Issoudun afin de chercher soutien auprès de son frère Jean-Jacques : c'est compter sans Flore Brazier, sa maîtresse surnommée la « rabouilleuse », qui a bien l'intention de garder sa part de la succession...
Avec ce roman des Scènes de la vie de province, Balzac peint avec noirceur les rivalités familiales et livre une fresque magistrale des premières décennies du xixe siècle. Un volume méconnu de La Comédie humaine à redécouvrir.
Préface, dossier et notes de Frédéric Nau.
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Avec ce roman des Scènes de la vie de province, Balzac peint avec noirceur les rivalités familiales et livre une fresque magistrale des premières décennies du xixe siècle. Un volume méconnu de La Comédie humaine à redécouvrir.
Préface, dossier et notes de Frédéric Nau.
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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