Albert Savarus - Honoré de Balzac

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Résumé :
A quiet drama of vanity and longing rises from a crowded Parisian drawing room. A deceptive glitter of social ambition gives way to human longing and quiet, sharpened truth. Albert Savarus offers a concise, brilliantly observed glimpse into the french literary milieu of nineteenth century paris, where reputation, romance, and reputation's rumour collide. Balzac's classic european fiction crafts a tightly wound narrative of mistaken identity and intrigue, where private life plays out under the watchful eyes of society. The result is a compact, powerful study of character, motive, and consequence that resonates beyond its era. This humane study edition brings a nuanced, accessible entry point to a realist masterwork. It speaks to casual readers drawn to a deft, page-turning exploration of ambition and love, while offering scholars and collectors a pristine, thoughtfully presented piece for the complete short novel collection. The book's enduring appeal lies in its crisp social satire and its vivid portrait of a world where virtue and vanity collide, inviting classroom discussion and deeper reflection on the forces that shape human choices. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions, it is restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint - it is a collector's item and a cultural treasure, a doorway into the real Paris of Balzac's contemporaries and a lasting touchstone for lovers of french realist novella and nineteenth century short novel....

Biographie:
Honor? de Balzac was a French novelist and dramatist who lived from 1799 to 1850. One of the most significant writers of the 19th century, he is regarded as such. Many people believe La Com?die Humaine, his masterwork, to be his finest work. His mother was Anne-Charlotte-Laure Sallambier, and his father was Bernard-Fran?ois Balssa. He was the Balzacs' second child. Honor? Balzac spent his first two years of life living with a wet nurse after being abandoned as a newborn. From the age of 10, Balzac attended the Oratorian grammar school in Vend?me. Look at the beautiful ones we sent the academy back! was how his grandma put it. On a bridge over the River Loire, he attempted suicide. Balzac wrote El Verdugo shortly after his father died. It is the story of a 30-year-old man who kills his father (Balzac was 30 years old at the time). This was Honor? de Balzac's first piece of work. After courting her for five years, Balzac wed Countess Eve de Balzac (formerly Countess Haska) in Ukraine in 1850. On Sunday, August 18, 1850, five months after his wedding, Balzac died in the company of his mother...