A Marriage Settlement
by Honoré de Balzac
The Human Comedy (Études de Moeurs - Scènes de la vie privée III | 19), Studies of Manners (26), Scenes from Private Life (26)
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The short novel The Marriage Contract is part of the Scenes From Private Life section of Honore de Balzac's epic masterpiece of nineteenth-century realism, The Human Comedy. It delves directly into the question of the nature of marriage, which was rapidly evolving during the period. Kind-hearted bachelor Paul de Manerville becomes deeply smitten with the comely Natalie Evangelista and wants to marry for love, but Natalie and her scheming mother have their eyes on his vast fortune.Tags
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De Marsay é o melhor do livro. Desse e de vários outros, aliás. Adoro como ele fala que medirá forças como Nathalie Evangelista e ela perceberá que não se deve combater o diabo. Adoro quando ele diz que viver, para ele, importou tanto como beber um copo de leite.
Ce petit texte par lequel Balzac excelle à nous emmener au cœur de cette comédie humaine qui a pour base la lutte entre les sexes dans un contexte historique en mutation peut parfaitement se lire à la lumière d’aujourd’hui. C’est comme s’il inaugurait, par cette écriture, une ère, véritable mutation sociale marquée par le début de la bourgeoisie et du règne de l’argent donc de l’utile, dans laquelle la femme s’avère infiniment plus maligne que l’homme. Comme dans « Le contrat de mariage », c’est elle la gagnante, et lui le perdant.
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Born on May 20, 1799, Honore de Balzac is considered one of the greatest French writers of all time. Balzac studied in Paris and worked as a law clerk while pursuing an unsuccessful career as an author. He soon accumulated enormous debts that haunted him most of his life. A prolific writer, Balzac would often write for 14 to-16 hours at a time. show more His writing is marked by realistic portrayals of ordinary, but exaggerated characters and intricate detail. In 1834, Balzac began organizing his works into a collection called The Human Comedy, an attempt to group his novels to present a complete social history of France. Characters in this project reappeared throughout various volumes, which ultimately consisted of approximately 90 works. Some of his works include Cesar Birotteau, Le Cousin Pons, Seraphita, and Le Cousine Bette. Balzac wed his lifelong love, Eveline Hanska in March 1850 although he was gravely ill at the time. Balzac died in August of that year. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- A Marriage Settlement
- Original title
- Le Contrat de mariage
- Original publication date
- 1835
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