Eugenie Grandet Mit Einem Essay Von Wolfgang Koeppen
Binding: Paperback
Date Published: 2003-03-13
Authors: Honoré de Balzac
'Who is going to marry Eugénie Grandet?' This is the question that fills the minds of the inhabitants of Saumur, the setting for Eugénie Grandet (1833), one of the the earliest and most famous novels in Balzac's Comédie humaine. The Grandet household, oppressed by the exacting miserliness of Grandet himself, is jerked violently out of routine by the sudden arrival of Eugénie's cousin Charles, recently orphaned and penniless. Eugénie'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. Eugénie'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.
ISBN-13: 9780192804747
ISBN-10: 019280474X
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Language: English
Subjects: Fiction, Classics, Literary
Edition:
Pages: 200
Dimensions: 12.7 x 1.27 x 19.05 cm
Weight: 0.159 kg
