Etudes de moeurs. 1er livre. Scènes de la vie privée. T. 2. Une fille dEve (French Edition)
This deficit is compounded by the fact that his mother had not only married a commoner far beneath her in rank, but she had also performed menial labour to support herself when her husband died. Another contrast is between Emile Blondet and Raoul Nathan. Both are multi-talented men-of-letters.
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He marries Madame de Montcornet and eventually becomes a prefect. Nathan is described as half-Jewish and possessing a second-rate mind. Nathan succumbs to the flattery of unscrupulous financiers and does not see that they are prepared to bankrupt him to achieve their purposes.
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Blondet sees what is happening but does not enlighten Nathan. The downfall drives Nathan to attempt suicide by the method of "any poor work-girl". In the end he accepts the cross of the Legion of Honour which he formerly satirised and becomes a defender of the doctrine of heredity. We are left in no doubt that it is the second option that produces what Balzac considers to be the ideal woman. Ursula is pious and prone to collapsing in tears at the slightest emotion.
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This page was last edited on 19 November , at By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Medieval Renaissance 17th 18th 19th 20th century Contemporary. French Wikisource has original text related to this article: In a letter written to Madame Hanska in , Balzac decided to reorganize his works into three larger groups, allowing him 1 to integrate his "La physiologie du mariage" into the ensemble and 2 to separate his most fantastic or metaphysical stories — like La Peau de chagrin and Louis Lambert — into their own "philosophical" section.
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The three sections were:. In this letter, Balzac went on to say that the "Etudes de Moeurs" would study the effects of society and touch on all genders, social classes, ages and professions of people. Meanwhile, the "Etudes philosophiques" would study the causes of these effects. Finally, the third "analytical" section would study the principles behind these phenomena.
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For this edition, novels which had appeared in serial form were stricken of their chapter titles. Balzac's intended collection was never finished.
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In , Balzac wrote a complete catalogue of the ensemble which includes works he started or envisioned but never finished. In some cases, Balzac moved a work around between different sections as his overall plan developed; the catalogue given below represents that last version of that process. Balzac's works were slow to be translated into English because they were perceived as unsuitable for Victorian readers. Ives and others in Philadelphia — In , Balzac wrote a preface an "Avant-propos" to the whole ensemble in which he explained his method and the collection's structure.
The importance of the woman is underlined by Balzac's contention that, while a biologist may gloss over the differences between a male and female lion, "in Society the woman is not simply the female of the man". He then describes his writer's role as a "secretary" who is transcribing society's "history"; moreover, he posits that he is interested in something that no previous historian has attempted: He also notes his desire to go behind the surface of events, to show the reasons and causes for social phenomena.
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Balzac's first novel Les Chouans was inspired by this vogue and tells of the rural inhabitants of Brittany during the revolution with Cooper-like descriptions of their dress and manners. Many of Balzac's shorter works have elements taken from the popular "roman noir" or gothic novel , but often the fantastic elements are used for very different purposes in Balzac's work.
His use of the magical ass' skin in La Peau de chagrin for example becomes a metaphor for diminished male potency and a key symbol of Balzac's conception of energy and will in the modern world. In a similar way, Balzac undermines the character of Melmoth the Wanderer in his "Melmoth Reconciled": Balzac takes a character from a fantastic novel by Charles Robert Maturin who has sold his soul for power and long life and has him sell his own power to another man in Paris As depicted in his works, Balzac's spiritual philosophy suggests that individuals have a limited quantity of spiritual energy and that this energy is dissipated through creative or intellectual work or through physical activity including sex , and this is made emblematic in his philosophical tale La Peau de chagrin , in which a magical wild ass's skin confers on its owner unlimited powers, but shrinks each time it is used in science.
Balzac frequently bemoans the loss of a pre-Revolutionary society of honor which has now become — especially after the fall of Charles X of France and the arrival of the July Monarchy — a society dominated by money. The other source of power is rank.
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People of good blood aspire to a title, while people with titles aspire to the peerage. The opening section of The Secrets of the Princess Cadignan provides an explanation of why the title of prince is not prevalent nor coveted in France compared to contemporary Germany or Russia. The difference in outcome is partly explained by Balzac's views on heredity: This deficit is compounded by the fact that his mother had not only married a commoner far beneath her in rank, but she had also performed menial labour to support herself when her husband died.