Eugenie Grandet

De Honoré de Balzac

"Romanul Eugenie Grandet este, alaturi de Gobseck, Mos Goriot, Marirea si decaderea lui Cesar Birotteau si Verisoara Bette, una dintre capodoperele balzaciene. Critica literara si succesul durabil al acestui roman in randul cititorilor, l-au asezat printre cele mai de seama creatii ale realismului francez, deoarece reflecta caracteristicile epocii, goana dupa profituri, dorinta apriga de imbogatire, care fac din societate un soi de jungla, unde razbesc fiintele cele mai feroce si mai lipsite de scrupule.
In mediul burghez de provincie pe care il zugraveste acest roman, ca si in elegantele saloane pariziene descrise in alte romane, domneste puterea banului. Asadar, Eugenie Grandet reflecta nu numai o drama morala individuala, ci o intreaga societate, al carei idol suprem este banul.
Domnia banului - prin avaritia tatalui sau, apoi prin tradarea lui Charles - este cea care o zdrobeste pe Eugenie, condamnand-o la o viata aproape monahala, searbada, lipsita de orice bucurie sau speranta.
Pe langa istorisirea destinului nefericit al acesteia, cititorul remarca, prin informatiile precise asupra epocii, fidelitatea absoluta a lui Balzac fata de realitate; in plus, felul in care marele scriitor judeca si infiereaza aceasta societate avida si mercantila, are cu atat mai multa forta expresiva cu cat el evita tonul indignat, stilul oratoric, ramanand un narator cumpatat si in aparenta obiectiv." - Liliana Anghel

• Limbă: Română
• Editor: Aldo Press
• Data lansării: 1 dec. 2015
• ISBN: 9789737010865

Honoré de Balzac

Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) was a French novelist, short story writer, and playwright. Regarded as one of the key figures of French and European literature, Balzac’s realist approach to writing would influence Charles Dickens, Émile Zola, Henry James, Gustave Flaubert, and Karl Marx. With a precocious attitude and fierce intellect, Balzac struggled first in school and then in business before dedicating himself to the pursuit of writing as both an art and a profession. His distinctly industrious work routine—he spent hours each day writing furiously by hand and made extensive edits during the publication process—led to a prodigious output of dozens of novels, stories, plays, and novellas. La Comédie humaine, Balzac’s most famous work, is a sequence of 91 finished and 46 unfinished stories, novels, and essays with which he attempted to realistically and exhaustively portray every aspect of French society during the early-nineteenth century.