Les Paysans

Written by Honoré de Balzac

Narrated by Zelda Perez

Un fils d'ébéniste, suite à une brillante carrière militaire est anobli par Napoléon, devenu le comte de Montcornet, il épouse une aristocrate et rachète un domaine en Bourgogne. C'est alors qu'il sera confronté à une ruralité plus rétive que prévu. Si j'ai, pendant huit ans, cent fois quitté, cent fois repris ce livre, le plus considérable de ceux que j'ai résolu d'écrire, c'est que tous mes amis, comme vous-même, ont compris que le courage pouvait chanceler devant tant de difficultés, tant de détails mêlés à ce drame doublement terrible et si cruellement ensanglanté… H. de Balzac

• Language: Français
• Publisher: Editions Theleme from W. F. Howes
• Release date: May 15, 2019
• ISBN: 9791025604694

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.