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romankurys's review against another edition
3.0
I thought by now I had Human Comedy figured out, so it caught me off guard when this story did not take place in Paris.
Instead, Balzac takes us to a small village and proceeds to tell his love story of things that could be.
This story has many cliches. Like, for example, one person loves someone they cannot have. Another person loves someone who does not want them. Many people in a small town are fighting over decision making power. And in the center of it all, our main protagonist, Albert Savarus.
Despite the cliches, I found myself enjoying my time reading this novella. It had a certain, spark, I suppose, that kept me turning over one page after another.
There were a few aha moments, a few laughs, and, naturally, a few I knew its, but overall I liked it.
‘Balzac has a way of telling his story that is old fashioned and at the same time intriguing and still interesting today. A few of the 19th century European writers did. Dumas comes to mind, Stendhal, Dickens, Walter Scott, Hugo a few that jump first in my mind.
Personally I think this is either something one likes, or does not. It’s either boring, or interesting. For me, its a good glance into the past told from the eyes of a person who had lived through those times. I suppose that is where my interest comes through.
Anyways, I am hooked and will be continuing Human Comedy further for sure.
Roman
Instead, Balzac takes us to a small village and proceeds to tell his love story of things that could be.
This story has many cliches. Like, for example, one person loves someone they cannot have. Another person loves someone who does not want them. Many people in a small town are fighting over decision making power. And in the center of it all, our main protagonist, Albert Savarus.
Despite the cliches, I found myself enjoying my time reading this novella. It had a certain, spark, I suppose, that kept me turning over one page after another.
There were a few aha moments, a few laughs, and, naturally, a few I knew its, but overall I liked it.
‘Balzac has a way of telling his story that is old fashioned and at the same time intriguing and still interesting today. A few of the 19th century European writers did. Dumas comes to mind, Stendhal, Dickens, Walter Scott, Hugo a few that jump first in my mind.
Personally I think this is either something one likes, or does not. It’s either boring, or interesting. For me, its a good glance into the past told from the eyes of a person who had lived through those times. I suppose that is where my interest comes through.
Anyways, I am hooked and will be continuing Human Comedy further for sure.
Roman
lnatal's review
4.0
Written in 1842, Albert Savarus is a work of a circumstance at the same time a personal testimony. In correspondence since 1832, lovers in 1834, Balzac and Madame Hanska were promised to be married. But the death of the old is Mr. Hanski was waiting.
The story which parodies and depicts French society in the period of the Restoration and the July Monarchy (1815–1848).
The English version can be found at Gutenberg Project
The original French text at La Bibliothèque électronique du Québec.
3* La maison du Chat-qui-pelote (1830)
3* Le bal de Sceaux (1830)
3* La Bourse (1830)
4* La Vendetta (1830)
3* Madame Firmiani (1832)
3* Une Double Famille (1830)
4* La paix du ménage (1830)
3* La Fausse Maîtresse (1842)
3* Étude de femme (1830)
4* Albert Savarus (1842)
The story which parodies and depicts French society in the period of the Restoration and the July Monarchy (1815–1848).
The English version can be found at Gutenberg Project
The original French text at La Bibliothèque électronique du Québec.
3* La maison du Chat-qui-pelote (1830)
3* Le bal de Sceaux (1830)
3* La Bourse (1830)
4* La Vendetta (1830)
3* Madame Firmiani (1832)
3* Une Double Famille (1830)
4* La paix du ménage (1830)
3* La Fausse Maîtresse (1842)
3* Étude de femme (1830)
4* Albert Savarus (1842)
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