La femme abandonnée

Par Honoré de Balzac

La vicomtesse de Beauséant, abandonnée par le marquis d’Ajuda Pinto après une aventure malheureuse, s’est réfugiée dans son château en Basse-Normandie. Elle y vit en solitaire, recluse. Ce personnage fait partie de La Comédie humaine : Madame de Beauséant y est la référence parisienne, tenant un salon très réputé. Elle est également parente de Rastignac, qu’elle initie aux subtilités de la vie mondaine dans la capitale.

• Langue: Français
• Éditeur: Editions de L'Herne
• Date de sortie: 27 juin 2013
• ISBN: 9782851971203

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.