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The cabinet is a remnant of the ancient written by Honoré de Balzac was born in Tours in 1799, one of the most celebrated French novelists of literature. In particular, one of the undisputed masters of the novel, a genre that particularly cultivated. madia Among his favorite themes, highlight the realistic novel of psychological type: the work before us today is a good example. His style influenced later authors like Gustave Flaubert, Emile Zola and Marcel Proust. madia
The remains, including within his monumental work The Human Comedy, the title of which is nothing more than an allusion to the Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, Italian Renaissance, was first published in the newspaper Le Quotidien s year 1838, and a year later in book form. The plot of the novel occurs madia during the second Restoration, when he established a new monarchical sovereignty in the hands of Louis XVIII and Charles X, brother of King Louis XVI of the House of Bourbon .
The novel places the action madia in the province, and, in turn, takes as the theme provincial resentment personified under the noble family of D'Esgrignon under the Liberals of Du Croisier. The main character is Count Esgrignon, Victurnien, son of brands Esgrignon a child shrewd and intelligent, but deeply spoiled by her father and her aunt, when being motherless, it was decided to raise it as if it were his son-main driver of all the misfortunes that accumulates on your house. Beside the main end figure, Chesnel, the old notary end of the family that has served all his life, embodying the ideals madia appear prudent savings, which are opposed to the spirit of the young Count lustful and wasteful.
Balzac presents, therefore, a realistic portrait, but also psychological, as "authentic provincial nobility," which at the time was deeply aggrieved by the events of 1789: the French Revolution. On Esgrignon, despite being a noble family ruined by the abolition of the nobility and forgotten by the Second madia Restoration, lives with all sorts of claims in an attempt to reach a social position that will never be achieved. Balzac, therefore, as has been said, with some irony draws a leadership that refuses to be defeated by the passage madia of time and social changes irreversible. The result can be no other than shares of a noble but now ridiculous and out of place. The description on page twenty-four of the old cabinet, the show marks the Esgrignon which meets the nobility leaves no doubts: "Under those empostissats, tinsel a time that no longer exists, it is moved in front eight or ten wealthy widows, some of the wobbly head, the other black and parched like mummies; These stiff, the other linked to all cumbersome costumes more or less opposed to outlandish fashion [...]. Neither the paintings nor the more serious madia comic have failed ever wandering poetry of those women [...]. "
The work, published by Editions year 1984 has been translated by Anna Casassas and, therefore, is of great quality. In the Catalan translation preserves the essence of the original French: Balzac style permeates every line, and the use of terms adapted to the time. In short, an interesting novel to understand the historical moment that gave rise to the Second Restoration.
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