Honorine [French English Bilingual Edition] - Paragraph-by-Paragraph Translation

by Honore de Balzac, Clara Bell (Translator)

Overview

Honorine is a 1843 novel. It is part of the Scènes de la Vie Privée (Scenes from Private Life) subseries of La Comédie humaine.
Honorine leaves her husband, count Octave, for a man she falls in love with passionately. They have a child. The man leaves her, however, at the end of a year and a half. The child dies. The count still loves her, and appoints Maurice, the narrator of the story, as a go between. The novel poses a series of questions on the nature of marriage.
The novelistic structure is similar to the one used in La Femme abandonnée and part of La Femme de trente ans. Original elements include the addition of the point of view of the husband, and the complex net in which the separated wife is immersed after the man abandons her, and the narrator's own emotional involvement in the whole affair.

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Product Details

BN ID:	2940148740773
Publisher:	Wolf Pup Books
Publication date:	07/18/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	173 KB
Language:	French

About the Author

Honoré de Balzac (20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright. In 1832, he conceived a project of writing a collection of books that would describe all aspects of society. Originally called Etudes des Mœurs (Study of Mores), it eventually became known as La Comédie Humaine, which became a slice of French life in the years after the fall of Napoleon. Honoré de Balzac's attention to detail and realist representation of society earns him the title of one of the founders of realism in European literature. His characters are complex, and not easy to pigeonhole (like real life). He influenced writers such Marcel Proust, Émile Zola, Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Gustave Flaubert, Henry James, William Faulkner, Jack Kerouac, and Italo Calvino.