#Eugénie Grandet

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L'importanza di Balzac per la letteratura moderna

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i did read crime and punishment to my baby nephew once, it made him fall asleep. if i had a baby i would 100% read classics out loud to them just to see what happens

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Louise Bourgeois, “Eugénie Grandet,” 2009

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Eugénie Grandet, Balzac

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cloth panel from louise bourgeois’s 2009 piece eugénie grandet via all___kinds

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"Eugénie Grandet" è uno dei romanzi più celebri di Honoré de Balzac, pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1833. Fa parte del vasto ciclo narrativo de "La Comédie Humaine", un'opera monumentale che Balzac ha dedicato a rappresentare la società francese del suo tempo.

Il romanzo è ambientato nella cittadina di Saumur, nella Valle della Loira, e racconta la storia di Eugénie, una giovane donna che vive sotto il giogo del padre, Félix Grandet, un uomo estremamente avaro e manipolatore. La trama si sviluppa attorno alla vita monotona e opprimente di Eugénie, che viene sconvolta dall'arrivo del cugino Charles, recentemente orfano e senza un soldo. Questo incontro risveglia in Eugénie sentimenti di amore e ribellione, portandola a scontrarsi con l'autorità paterna.

Balzac utilizza la figura di Grandet padre per criticare l'ossessione borghese per il denaro e il potere. La sua avarizia non solo rovina la vita della figlia, ma rappresenta anche una critica più ampia alla società del tempo, dove il valore delle persone è spesso misurato in termini di ricchezza materiale. La descrizione dettagliata della vita provinciale e delle dinamiche familiari rende il romanzo un ritratto vivido e realistico della Francia post-rivoluzionaria.

Honoré de Balzac nacque il 20 maggio 1799 a Tours, in Francia, da una famiglia borghese. Suo padre, Bernard-François Balzac, era un funzionario pubblico, mentre sua madre, Charlotte-Laure Sallambier, proveniva da una famiglia di commercianti parigini. Balzac trascorse un'infanzia solitaria e difficile, segnata dai frequenti disaccordi tra i genitori.

Dopo aver frequentato il Collège des Oratoriens a Vendôme, Balzac si trasferì a Parigi, dove studiò diritto. Tuttavia, la sua vera passione era la letteratura. Dopo alcuni tentativi falliti di affermarsi come drammaturgo, Balzac iniziò a scrivere romanzi sotto vari pseudonimi. La sua carriera letteraria decollò con la pubblicazione di "Les Chouans" nel 1829, il primo romanzo che firmò con il suo vero nome.

Balzac è noto per il suo stile di vita frenetico e per la sua incredibile produttività. Lavorava spesso per lunghe ore, alimentato da caffè nero, e scriveva in modo compulsivo. La sua opera più famosa, "La Comédie Humaine", è una serie di quasi cento romanzi e racconti che offrono un ritratto dettagliato della società francese del XIX secolo. Tra le sue opere più celebri si trovano "Le Père Goriot", "La Cousine Bette" e, naturalmente, "Eugénie Grandet".

Nonostante il successo letterario, Balzac ebbe una vita personale tumultuosa, segnata da numerosi debiti e relazioni amorose complicate. Nel 1850, sposò la contessa polacca Ewelina Hańska, con la quale aveva intrattenuto una lunga corrispondenza. Purtroppo, Balzac morì pochi mesi dopo il matrimonio, il 18 agosto 1850, a Parigi.

Balzac è considerato uno dei padri del realismo nella letteratura europea. La sua capacità di creare personaggi complessi e di descrivere con precisione la società del suo tempo ha influenzato molti scrittori successivi, tra cui Émile Zola, Charles Dickens e Marcel Proust.

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Artist, by Kalliope Amorphous

"Hangi durumda olursa olsun, kadınların erkeklerden daha fazla acı çekme nedenleri vardır, bu yüzden erkeklerden daha çok acı çekerler. Erkek güçlüdür, gücünün etkisini gösterir: Gider, gelir, düş��nür, bir şeyler yapmaya çalışır, geleceği anlayıp teselli bulur. Charles da işte böyle yapıyordu. Ama kadın, yaşadığı yerde, hiçbir şeyin avutamadığı kederiyle baş başadır; kederin açmış olduğu uçurumun dibine kadar iner, derinliğini ölçer; onu, genellikle duaları ve gözyaşlarıyla doldurur. Eugénie de böyle yapıyordu."

Honore de Balzac | Eugenie Grandet

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Allow me to share my own treasures (most of these are French)!

East of Eden by John Steinbeck. A story about siblings, flawed parenting, and humanity’s struggle to do good. Probably my favourite novel right now.

Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand. A story about love and lies and beauty and sacrifice and letters, many of them. The play ever.

Le spleen de Paris by Charles Baudelaire. A collection of short prose poems, which were revolutionary at the time.

Vipère au poing by Hervé Bazin. A poignant look into a childhood of abuse, and what it means to become your parents.

Le Père Goriot by Honoré de Balzac. An excellent surprise given I did not like Eugénie Grandet at all. This one is about paternal love and ungrateful children, for a change!

Thérèse Raquin by Émile Zola. Dare I say it’s horror? It probably counts as horror. I also liked L’Assommoir and Nana, but they are considerably longer, so probably not the best place to start.

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, but it’s been mentioned before. Same for Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus, and of course, Bram Stoker’s Dracula.

Une vie by Guy de Maupassant. A story about heartbreak and hope.

En attendant Godot by Samuel Beckett. Just finished this play a few days ago, it’s purposefully weird and unsettling and strangely touching.

La Chambre des officiers by Marc Dugain. In which a disfigured WWI soldier learns to live again.

Les Trois Mousquetaires by Alexandre Dumas père and Auguste Maquet. Supremely funny and surprisingly dark. I’m re-reading it right now!

By the very same, Le Comte de Monte-Cristo. A story about rebirth and REVENGE.

The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe. Another story about rebirth and REVENGE.

Phèdre by Racine. Mythology and cool poetry? Sign me in!

La guerre de Troie n’aura pas lieu by Jean Giraudoux. A look at the circumstances that will inevitably lead to WWII, under the guise of a mythological rewrite.

Metamorphoses by Ovid. There’s a story for everyone! Including one about a trans guy who lives happily ever after!

Anything by Victor Hugo ever.

And so much more that I must be forgetting right now! @dragongutsixofficial and @pegasusdrawnchariots please come in with your additions! ❤️🪶

Hey so like many of you, I saw that article about how people are going into college having read no classic books. And believe it or not, I've been pissed about this for years. Like the article revealed, a good chunk of American Schools don't require students to actually read books, rather they just give them an excerpt and tell them how to feel about it. Which is bullshit.

So like. As a positivity post, let's use this time to recommend actually good classic books that you've actually enjoyed reading! I know that Dracula Daily and Epic the Musical have wonderfully tricked y'all into reading Dracula and The Odyssey, and I've seen a resurgence of Picture of Dorian Gray readership out of spite for N-tflix, so let's keep the ball rolling!

My absolute favorite books of all time are The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson. Classic psychological horror books about unhinged women.

I adore The Bad Seed by William March. It's widely considered to be the first "creepy child" book in American literature, so reading it now you're like "wow that's kinda cliche- oh my god this is what started it. This was ground zero."

I remember the feelings of validation I got when people realized Dracula wasn't actually a love story. For further feelings of validation, please read Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson. There's a lot the more popular adaptations missed out on.

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier is an absolute gem of a book. It's a slow-build psychological study so it may not be for everyone, but damn do the plot twists hit. It's a really good book to go into blind, but I will say that its handling of abuse victims is actually insanely good for the time period it was written in.

Moving on from horror, you know people who say "I loved this book so much I couldn't put it down"? That was me as a kid reading A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Picked it up while bored at the library and was glued to it until I finished it.

Peter Pan and Wendy by JM Barrie was also a childhood favorite of mine. Next time someone bitches about Woke Casting, tell them that the original 1911 Peter Pan novel had canon nonbinary fairies.

Watership Down by Richard Adams is my sister Cori's favorite book period. If you were a Warrior Cats, Guardians of Ga'Hoole or Wings of Fire kid, you owe a metric fuckton to Watership Down and its "little animals on a big adventure" setup.

A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry was a play and not a book first, but damn if it isn't a good fucking read. It was also named after a Langston Hughes poem, who's also an absolutely incredible author.

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is a book I absolutely adore and will defend until the day I die. It's so friggin good, y'all, I love it more than anything. You like people breaking out of fascist brainwashing? You like reading and value knowledge? You wanna see a guy basically predict the future of television back in 1953? Read Fahrenheit.

Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain and To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee are considered required reading for a reason: they're both really good books about young white children unlearning the racial biases of their time. Huck Finn specifically has the main character being told that he will go to hell if he frees a slave, and deciding eternal damnation would be worth it.

As a sidenote, another Mark Twain book I was obsessed with as a kid was A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Exactly what it says on the tin, incredibly insane read.

If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin is a heartbreaking but powerful book and a look at the racism of the time while still centering the love the two black protagonists feel for each other. Giovanni's Room by the same author is one that focuses on a MLM man struggling with his sexuality, and it's really important to see from the perspective of a queer man living in the 50s– as well as Baldwin's autobiographical novel, Go Tell it on the Mountain.

Agatha Christie mysteries are all still absolutely iconic, but Murder on the Orient Express is such a good read whether or not you know the end twist.

Maybe-controversial-maybe-not take: Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov is a good book if you have reading comprehension. No, you're not supposed to like the main character. He pretty much spells that out for you at the end ffs.

Animal Farm by George Orwell was another favorite of mine; it was written as an obvious metaphor for the rise of fascism in Russia at the time and boy does it hit even now.

And finally, please read Shakespeare plays. As soon as you get used to their way of talking, they're not as hard to understand as people will lead you to believe. My absolute favorite is Twelfth Night- crossdressing, bisexual love triangles, yellow stockings... it's all a joy.

and those are just the ones i thought of off the top of my head! What're your guys' favorite classic books? Let's make everyone a reading list!

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"Ich glaube, dass der wahre Frieden in uns selbst beginnt, bevor er sich in der Welt manifestiert." - Honoré de Balzac

Honoré de Balzac war ein französischer Schriftsteller des 19. Jahrhunderts. Er wurde am 20. Mai 1799 geboren und verstarb am 18. August 1850. Balzac ist vor allem für seine monumentale Romanreihe "Die menschliche Komödie" bekannt, in der er das Leben und die Gesellschaft seiner Zeit ausführlich beschrieb. Seine Werke sind für ihre tiefgreifende Charakterdarstellung und realistische Darstellung des 19. Jahrhunderts in Frankreich berühmt.

Honoré de Balzac schrieb eine umfangreiche Sammlung von Romanen und Erzählungen, die als "Die menschliche Komödie" bekannt ist. Diese Serie umfasst mehr als 90 Romane und Novellen, die das französische Gesellschaftsleben des 19. Jahrhunderts in all seinen Facetten beleuchten. Einige seiner bekanntesten Werke aus dieser Serie sind:

- "Verlorene Illusionen" (1837-1843) - Dieser Roman behandelt das Leben eines jungen Dichters und seine Versuche, in der Pariser Gesellschaft Fuß zu fassen.

- "Vater Goriot" (1835) - Dieses Werk erzählt die tragische Geschichte des alten Goriot, der sein ganzes Vermögen für seine beiden undankbaren Töchter opfert.

- "Eugénie Grandet" (1833) - In diesem Roman geht es um den Konflikt zwischen materiellem Wohlstand und moralischer Integrität.

- "Cousine Bette" (1846) - Diese Geschichte dreht sich um die Rache der betrogenen Cousine Bette.

Balzac's Werke bieten eine reiche Quelle für die Analyse von menschlichem Verhalten, sozialen Strukturen und moralischen Dilemmas, die in spirituellen und philosophischen Diskussionen von Interesse sind.

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Ra mắt công chúng vào 3 năm trước tại Sân khấu thể nghiệm Trường Múa TP.HCM, Thiên thần nhỏ của tôi, với nội dung xúc động, lôi cuốn, không chỉ phù hợp với các bạn nhỏ trong những ngày hè, mà còn đủ sức lay động cả những ký ức tuổi thơ của người “đã đủ lớn để mong bé lại”. Sau những đợt tái diễn, từ tháng 6 tới, Thiên thần nhỏ của tôi cũng như các tác phẩm khác của Sân khấu Hồng Hạc, sẽ đến với công chúng tại Nhà hát TP.HCM, theo kế hoạch hợp tác cùng Trung tâm tổ chức biểu diễn và điện ảnh TP.HCM. Tiếp sau đó, sẽ là vở kịch Eugénie Grandet (nguyên tác Balzac, biên kịch Việt Linh, đạo diễn Tây Phong), diễn ra vào 20 giờ ngày 14.6. Đây là hai vở diễn đặc sắc của Sân khấu Hồng Hạc, khi lần đầu tiên vở chính kịch dài được các diễn viên nhí từ 6 – 9 tuổi đảm trách vai chính, và cũng là lần đầu tiên văn học Balzac được chuyển thể sân khấu ở VN, với sự đầu tư công phu về trang phục, âm nhạc, do ê kíp diễn viên trẻ tài năng thể hiện. Khi đến với Nhà hát TP.HCM, các vở kịch sẽ có phụ đề tiếng Anh.

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Back to my Sansa Stark/Eugénie Grandet era.

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Drama plays mark 50 years of partnership between Việt Nam and France

TALENTED THESPIAN – Young actress Lê Chi Na (left) plays a lead role in ‘Eugénie Grandet’ in the Vietnamese adaptation of Honoré de Balzac’s novel. Photo courtesy of the theatre. HCM CITY — Young artists of the Hồng Hạc Drama Troupe are working on a series of new plays to mark 50 years since the establishment of diplomatic ties between Việt Nam and France. The highlight is an experimental play…

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gorgeous edition of Eugénie Grandet❤️

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cloth panel from louise bourgeois’s 2009 piece eugénie grandet via all___kinds

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Eugénie Grandet (1833)

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