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Chargement... Ursule Mirouët (1841)par Honoré de Balzac
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. This novel is also known under its French title of "Ursule Mirouët"; it is the first of Balzac's "Scenes from Provincial Life" section of his Human Comedy. Although I didn't realize it when I started, it is good that I read this book before "Another Study of Woman" (next up for me in "Scenes from Private Life") as Ursula, orphaned as a toddler & taken under the protection of her godfather Dr. Denis Minoret, is reviled by Dr. Minoret's relatives as much as she is loved by the doctor & his few friends. Balzac does a wonderful depiction of avarice and the way people judge others by their own character. To his greedy relatives, the girl must be always scheming to get hold of the doctor's money & it is their responsibility to put a stop to that to protect their inheritance. I delighted in this novel with one exception - Read in my Project Gutenberg Kindle edition "The Works of Balzac" 'a remarkable tour de force', 31 Dec. 2011 Verified Purchase(What is this?) This review is from: Ursule Mirouet (Classics) (Paperback) When elderly Dr Minoret settles in his family home town along with a young female ward, Ursule, his vulture-like relatives are ever in the wings waiting to inherit. They grow to hate Ursule, convinced she is scheming to get 'their' money. Without giving too much away, there is a crime, a touch of the supernatural and a pair of starcrossed lovers. It had me enthralled from page 1; I can see why Balzac considered it 'a remarkable tour de force'. The characterisations of the horrible relatives are brilliantly done eg 'his face was one of those in which it is hard for the thoughtful observer to see any trace of a soul beneath the florid tints of gross coarsening flesh'. Recommended. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Appartient à la sérieLa Comédie humaine (Études de Moeurs - Scènes de la vie de province I | 25) Studies of Manners (28) Appartient à la série éditorialedetebe-Klassiker (22422) Everyman's Library (733) Listes notables
Extrait : ""En entrant a Nemours, du co te de Paris, on passe sur le canal du Loing dont les bergers forment a la fois de champe tres remparts et de pittoresques promenades a cette jolie petite ville. Depuis 1830, on a malheureusement ba ti plusieurs maisons en dec ?a du pont. Si cette espe ce de faubourg s'augmente, la physionomie de la ville y perdra sa gracieuse originalite . Mais, en 1829, les co te s de la route e tant libres, le mai tre de poste, grand et gros homme d'environ...""A PROPOS DES E DITIONS LIGARANLes e ditions LIGARAN proposent des versions nume riques de qualite de grands livres de la l Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Ursula, orphaned as a toddler & taken under the protection of her godfather Dr. Denis Minoret, is reviled by Dr. Minoret's relatives as much as she is loved by the doctor & his few friends. Balzac does a wonderful depiction of avarice and the way people judge others by their own character. To his greedy relatives, the girl must be always scheming to get hold of the doctor's money & it is their responsibility to put a stop to that to protect their inheritance.
I delighted in this novel with one exception -
Read in my Project Gutenberg Kindle edition "The Works of Balzac" ( )