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Le Cousin Pons
  

Le Cousin Pons (Paperback)

by Honore de Balzac (Author) "Towards three o'clock in the afternoon of one October day in the year 1844, a man of sixty or thereabouts, whom anybody might have credited..." (more)
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Lorsque Gide découvrit Le Cousin Pons, ce fut, dit-il, « dans le ravissement, dans l'extase, ivre, perdu...»; «... c'est peut-être, de tant de chefs-d'oeuvre de Balzac, celui que je préfère; c'est en tout cas celui que j'ai le plus souvent relu.»

Et le livre, en effet, suscite la compassion aussi bien que l'effroi. Quand en 1847 Balzac le fait paraître, il constitue, après La Cousine Bette, le second volet des Parents pauvres où résonne le destin de grands coeurs injuriés. Vieux musicien gourmand, collectionneur d'oeuvres d'art bientôt cerné par la haine des plus vils intrigants d'en haut comme d'en bas, guetté par la mort mais lié à Schmucke d'une indéfectible amitié - un moment le livre eut pour titre Les Deux Musiciens - , le cousin Pons est la figure finalement sublime d'un roman sombre, travaillé par la dérision et l'angoisse, mais que l'humour et la drôlerie éclairent pour en faire également - le mot est de Balzac - une « comédie terrible ». --This text refers to the Mass Market Paperback edition.


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Towards three o'clock in the afternoon of one October day in the year 1844, a man of sixty or thereabouts, whom anybody might have credited with more than his actual age, was walking along the Boulevard des Italiens with his head bent down, as if he were tracking some one. Read the first page
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5.0 out of 5 stars One of the Balzac's best novels, Oct 3 2002
By ED (France, Normandy) - See all my reviews
I'm a Balzac's french fan.
"Cousin Pons" is one of my favourites Balzac's novels.
This novels speaks about art (music, paintings, ...), social relationships in a family and in a flat, and over there of FRIENDSHIP.
The friendship between Pons and Schmücke is the most facinating aspect of this novel (may be it's more than a frienship : a platonic love ?).
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5.0 out of 5 stars My favorite Balzac, Nov 25 1998
By Geoff Puterbaugh (Chiang Mai, T. Suthep, A. Muang Thailand) - See all my reviews
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This novel (Cousin Pons) for some reason is my favorite Balzac novel. Touching, perceptive, melancholy, and filled with brilliant characterization. You might try this if you have never read Balzac, and find out what happens to a "poor relation" who is suddenly discovered to be a "rich relation" by the relatives who have been treating him shabbily for the past three decades.

Then of course it's on to "Lost Illusions" and its sequel, "A Harlot High and Low" (Splendeurs et miseres....)

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