Cousin Bette
$37.48
- Paperback
496 pages
- Release Date
15 February 2002
Summary
“Bette is a wronged soul; and when her passion does break, it is, as Balzac says, sublime and terrifying,” wrote V. S. Pritchett. A late masterpiece in Balzac’s La Comedie Humaine, Cousin Bette is the story of a Vosges peasant who rebels against her scornful upper-class relatives, skillfully turning their selfish obsessions against them. The novel exemplifies what Henry James described as Balzac’s “huge, all-compassing, all-desiring, all-devouring love of reality.”
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780375759079 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0375759077 |
| Author: | Honoré de Balzac, Kathleen Raine, Francine Prose |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Random House USA Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 496 |
| Edition: | New edition |
| Release Date: | 15 February 2002 |
| Weight: | 393g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 132mm x 28mm |
| Series: | Modern Library Classics |
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“Raine’s translations restore Balzac to his passionate and efficient outrage upon the expectations of fiction. This best of his novels is worthy to be ‘ours’-and now it is.” -Richard Howard
“Raine’s translations restore Balzac to his passionate and efficient outrage upon the expectations of fiction. This best of his novels is worthy to be ‘ours’—and now it is.” —Richard Howard
About The Author
Honoré de Balzac
Kathleen Raine, the renowned British translator, poet, critic, and editor, was recently awarded the distinguished title of Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government.
Francine Prose’s most recent novel, Blue Angel, was a 2000 National Book Award finalist. A contributing editor at Harper’s magazine, she writes for many publications, including The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.
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