Eugenia Grandet

Written by Honoré de Balzac

Narrated by Silvia Cecchini

Eugenia Grandet fu pubblicato nel 1833, e tradotto in italiano da Grazia Deledda. Il personaggio di papà Grandet è l’archetipo dell’avaro, e la figlia, Eugenia, cresciuta sotto il suo regime monastico, riscatta la sua eredità genetica diventando un fiore purissimo e immacolato nel cuore della provincia Francese, forse proprio perché lontana dall’influenza della “morale parigina”. Un capolavoro della letteratura del maestro della letteratura francese del 1800.

• Language: Italiano
• Publisher: Gli Ascolta Libri
• Release date: Sep 19, 2012
• ISBN: 9781509424474

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.