6/27/2023 0 Comments Cousin Bette by Honoré de Balzac![]() ![]() It was serialized in Le Constitutionnel at the end of 1846 and, together with Le Cousin Pons, published the following year, constitutes the diptych Les Parents poor. Writing quickly with intense focus, Balzac produced La Cousine Bette, one of his longest novels, in just two months. Balzac wishes to surpass Sue and show that he is the best author of serial novels in France. In the 1840s, the serial novel, very popular in France, was mainly represented by Eugène Sue with his socialist writings. The patriarch of the Hulot family, meanwhile, is consumed by his own sexual desire. ![]() The characters of the novel represent several points of view of morality: the vengeful cousin Bette and the insincere Mme Marneffe on the one hand, and on the other, the merciful Adeline Hulot and Hortense, her sick daughter. ![]() ![]() He sacrifices almost all of his family's fortune in an effort to please Valérie, who eventually leaves him for a merchant named Célestin Crevel. One of them is Hector Hulot, husband of Adeline Hulot, Lisbeth's cousin. Lisbeth Fischer, nicknamed "Cousin Bette", is an old maid applying herself to systematically destroy those around her, with the collaboration of Valérie Marneffe, a badly married woman, who seduces and torments a series of men. The book is part of Scenes from Parisian life in La Comédie Humaine. La Cousine Bette is a novel by Honoré de Balzac published in 1846-1847, set in 19th century Paris. Written in 1846 at the height of Balzacs powers, this novel portrays the stunningly malevolent Cousin Bette and her intricate plans for revenge against the. ![]()
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