Mild, harmless and ugly to behold, the impoverished Pons is an ageing musician whose brief fame has fallen to nothing. Living a placid Parisian life as a bachelor in a shared apartment with his friend Schmucke, he maintains only two passions: a devotion to fine dining in the company of wealthy but disdainful relatives, and a dedication to the collection of antiques. When these relatives become aware of the true value of his art collection, however, their sneering contempt for the parasitic Pons rapidly falls away as they struggle to obtain a piece of the weakening man's inheritance. Taking its place in the Human Comedy as a companion to Cousin Bette, the darkly humorous Cousin Pons is among of the last and greatest of Balzac's novels concerning French urban society: a cynical, pessimistic but never despairing consideration of human nature.
Autorentext
Autorentext
Honoré de Balzac
Titel
Cousin Pons
Untertitel
Part Two of 'Poor Relations'
Autor
EAN
9780141961200
ISBN
978-0-14-196120-0
Format
E-Book (epub)
Hersteller
Herausgeber
Veröffentlichung
29.06.2006
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Adobe-DRM
Dateigrösse
1.88 MB
Anzahl Seiten
336
Jahr
2006
Untertitel
Englisch
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