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Saumur, the setting for Eugenie Grandet (1833), one of the earliest and most famous novels in Balzac's great Comedie humaine. The Grandet household, oppressed by the exacting miserliness of Grandet himself, is jerked violently out of routine by the sudden arrival of Eugenie's cousin Charles, recently orphaned and penniless. Eugenie's emotional awakening, stimulated by her love for her cousin, brings her into direct conflict with her father, whose cunning and financial success are matched against her determination to rebel. Eugenie's moving story is set against the backdrop of provincial oppression, the vicissitudes of the wine trade, and the workings of the financial system in the aftermath of the French Revolution. It is both a poignant portrayal of private life and a vigorous fictional document of its age. Book jacket.… (meer)
Dit is eigenlijk vooral de roman van de vrek Grandet, eerder dan van Eugenie. Het typetje van de gierigaard wordt prachtig getekend, al is er na Molière toch niet zoveel meer toe te voegen. Heel zwakjes zijn de andere karakters: Eugenie, de moeder, en de Cruchots en Grassins; alleen de dienstmeid Nanon vertoont nog wat consistentie. Ook aan de structuur van het verhaal mangelt er wat: op het einde is het een wirwar van plotse gebeurtenissen en wendingen, die het geheel onevenwichtig maken. Dus: rake typering van de vrek en zijn milieu, en van het overal aanwezige cynisme; zwakke vrouwenfiguren. ( )
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
A Maria, Que votre nom, vous dont le portrait est le plus bel ornement de cet ouvrage, soit ici comme une branche de buis bénit, prise on ne sait à quel arbre, mais certainement sanctifiée par la religion et renouvelée, toujours verte, par des mains pieuses, pour protéger la maison.
To Maria Your portrait is the fairest ornament of this book, and here it is fitting that your name should be set, like the branch of box taken from some unknown garden to lie for a while in the holy water, and afterwards set by pious hands above the threshold, where the green spray, ever renewed, is a sacred talisman to ward off all evil from the house.
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Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
In some country towns there exist houses whose appearance weighs as heavily upon the spirits as the gloomiest cloister,the most dismal ruin, or the dreariest stretch of barren land.
My first entry words: Tale about a family, each of whom is really an evolved personality -- but they probably don't know it.
In some country towns there are houses more depressing to the sight than the dimmest cloister, the most melancholy ruins, or the dreariest stretch of sandy waste. [Ellen Marriage Tr.]
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Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
Charles was a thorough child of Paris, with a Parisian's habit of mind.. He had received the detestable education of a world in which more crimes (in thought and word at least) are committed in one evening than come before a court of justice in the course of a whole session; a world in which great ideas perish, done to death by a witticism, and where it is reckoned a weakness not to see things as they are. To see things as they are – that means, believe in nothing, put faith in nothing and in no man, for there is no such thing as sincerity in opinion or affection; mistrust events, for even events can be manufactured. To see things as they are you must weigh your friend's purse morning by morning; you must know by instinct the right moment to interfere for your own profit in every matter that turns up; you must keep your judgement rigorously suspended, be in no hurry to admire a work of art or a noble deed, and give every one credit for interested motives on every possible occasion.
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Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
Neither big Nanon nor Cornoiller is sharp enough to understand the world's corruptions.
"Even the smallest step made in hope is stronger than any trial we encounter." - John Marshall, "Keep Going" film - (St.Joseph's Indian School Newsletter)
(The above words written on 04.21.14 and 15 pages from the front - Many pages left for entries.)
Nanon and Cornoiller, so it is said, are in the interest of the marquis, but nothing could be more false; for big Nanon and Cornoiller have neither of them wit enough to understand the corruptions of the world. [Ellen Marriage Tr.]
Saumur, the setting for Eugenie Grandet (1833), one of the earliest and most famous novels in Balzac's great Comedie humaine. The Grandet household, oppressed by the exacting miserliness of Grandet himself, is jerked violently out of routine by the sudden arrival of Eugenie's cousin Charles, recently orphaned and penniless. Eugenie's emotional awakening, stimulated by her love for her cousin, brings her into direct conflict with her father, whose cunning and financial success are matched against her determination to rebel. Eugenie's moving story is set against the backdrop of provincial oppression, the vicissitudes of the wine trade, and the workings of the financial system in the aftermath of the French Revolution. It is both a poignant portrayal of private life and a vigorous fictional document of its age. Book jacket.
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Ook aan de structuur van het verhaal mangelt er wat: op het einde is het een wirwar van plotse gebeurtenissen en wendingen, die het geheel onevenwichtig maken.
Dus: rake typering van de vrek en zijn milieu, en van het overal aanwezige cynisme; zwakke vrouwenfiguren. (