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Le cousin Pons
Le cousin Pons
Le cousin Pons
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Le cousin Pons

Written by Honoré de Balzac

Narrated by Bernard Petit

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Avec Le Cousin Pons, Balzac décrit, avec une cruauté réaliste rarement atteinte, la descente aux enfers du malheureux Sylvain Pons, prototype du parent pauvre, compositeur démodé, pique-assiette attendrissant, génial collectionneur de bric-à-brac, et ami du bon Allemand Schmucke. Autour de ces cœurs purs, il construit une impitoyable galerie de portraits : la portière Cibot, l’Auvergnat Rémonencq, l'avocat marron Fraisier, le « tableaumane » juif Elie Magus.

Les parents riches et méprisants Popinot ou Camusot se liguent pour assassiner le pauvre homme par des mots acérés qui sont autant de coups de poignard dans un cœur sensible. Quelques phrases d'un total cynisme surgissent au détour de ces pages inspirées : « En médecine, le cabriolet est plus important que le savoir. » « A la longue, il en est d'une profession comme du mariage, on n'en voit plus que les inconvénients. »

Le Cousin Pons, un chef-d’œuvre absolu à (re)découvrir, dans une version intégrale, interprétée "haut la voix" par Bernard Petit.
LanguageFrançais
Release dateJan 1, 2009
Author

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.

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