Le Curé de Tours (French Edition)
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The rooms had previously been tenanted by Abbe Chapeloud and the books and furnishings had been greatly coveted by Abbe Birotteau who didn't wish for much more than a good room, a good table, clean clothes and "shoes with silver buckles. Chapeloud was enabled to purchase his f The title character, Abbe Birotteau, is now sixty years of age.
Chapeloud was enabled to purchase his fine furnishings because of a legacy of two thousand francs and he left them to his friend in his will. Who else has designs on the fine items? Or maybe the Abbe Troubert?
To what lengths will they go to obtain them? The level of control, pace, psychological penetration, actuality of the characters and situations, between this novella and all of Balzac's previous writings is enough to make me think this is his first mature masterpiece. Troubert is up there with the other great Balzacian 'universal spiders' Vautrin, Gobseck and Chatelet; and it's a testament to his greatness at characterization that each The level of control, pace, psychological penetration, actuality of the characters and situations, between this novella and all of Balzac's previous writings is enough to make me think this is his first mature masterpiece.
Troubert is up there with the other great Balzacian 'universal spiders' Vautrin, Gobseck and Chatelet; and it's a testament to his greatness at characterization that each personality is incredibly different from the next despite the similar roles they play in their respective milieux.
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It is strange to create a drama about such an unimportant reason. It seems totally unreal, though, much later I have encountered something similar in real life: Thus, yet again, Balzac was good at describing how quite a few people tick. Dec 30, Lisa rated it liked it Shelves: Oh dear, poor Abbe Birotteau! Confounded by the treachery of one of Balzac's most vituperative 'old maids' and the cunning of his competitor for the position of canon, he fails to see disaster coming, takes bad advice from fair weather friends, and ends up exiled to a small village without any of the comforts he had come to take for granted.
Oct 14, Fazackerly Toast rated it liked it Shelves: I can't say I enjoyed that. If the aristocrats in the scenes from vie privee were awful, the commoners in the scenes from provincial life are even worse. Ah, the evil that lurks in the heart of an egomaniac priest and a vindictive old maid - we can only pity our dear old vicar of Tours.
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Due to his keen observation of fine 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.
The bourgeoisie are pitted against the small aristocracy of the city, and people's attachment to salons is crucial to the story. Marie rated it liked it Aug 05, Mavro Robert rated it liked it Feb 25, The struggle to restore Birotteau to his apartments is undertaken by well-meaning aristocrats with the aid of a Liberal lawyer. This page was last edited on 16 November , at Oh dear, poor Abbe Birotteau!
Inanimate objects are imbued with character as well; the city of Paris, a backdrop for much of his writing, takes on many human qualities. Many of Balzac's works have been made into films, and they continue to inspire other writers. An enthusiastic reader and independent thinker as a child, Balzac had trouble adapting himself to the teaching style of his grammar school.
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His willful nature caused trouble throughout his life, and frustrated his ambitions to succeed in the world of business. Lists with This Book. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. Dec 31, James F rated it liked it. These two short novels are also re-reads; I read them decades ago for my French survey course in college.
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They are among the best known of his shorter book These two short novels are also re-reads; I read them decades ago for my French survey course in college. They are among the best known of his shorter books, perhaps because they are better constructed than many of his novels are. Although I'm counting them separately I read them bound together in the Classiques Garnier edition with notes and variants, etc. Pierette [] is dedicated to Anna de Hanska, the fourteen-year-old daughter of Balzac's mistress Mme.
I doubt very much that anyone today would consider it as written or even suitable for young readers. The main plot is very simple; Pierrette Lorraine, a poor Breton girl, eleven years old and an orphan, is taken in by her rich cousins, the Rogons.
Retired merchants from Paris who have returned to their native city of Provins, M. Pierette is mistreated and used as a domestic servant, and becomes very ill. Her boyfriend, Joseph Brigaut, an apprentice joiner the first actual working-class character I've met with in Balzac follows her from Brittany and attempts to rescue her the novel begins with him singing under her window, and is told mainly as one long flashback until it reaches this point again near the end.
Two chapters give the family history of the Lorraines and the Rogons -- as often in Balzac, there has been chicanery with regard to inheritances -- and then most of the book deals with the mounting mental and physical abuse of Pierrette. This is combined with a satire of the liberal opposition in Provins, in the persons of the lawyer Vinet and the retired Colonel Gouraud, who manipulate the vanity of the Rogons to establish a liberal "power base" in the city. Balzac attacks them from the wrong side as usual, but the portrait is probably not much exaggerated -- the liberals of the time were not even republicans, but constitutional monarchists, the people who came to power in the novel is set in under the "bourgeois-king" Louis Philippe and whose corruption led to the Revolution of The book ends with a lawsuit and a cynical description of the successful later careers of all the villains of the novel.
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As in Pierrette , there is a lawsuit and the book ends with the villains triumphant. Jul 24, Narendra Jussien rated it really liked it.
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