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Scenes from a Courtesan's Life
Honore de Balzac
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Belletristik / Gegenwartsliteratur (ab 1945)
Beschreibung
Scenes from a Courtesan's Life is one of the last great works completed by Balzac for his huge novel series entitled The Human Comedy. Sections of this book, in various groupings and with various titles. It eventually settled into the four sections found in the present edition. At the end of that book, Lucien de Rubempre (born Lucien Chardon), a young provincial poet with great ambitions but feeble moral will, was heading for Paris in the company of a mysterious Spanish priest. In the present book, we quickly discover that the "e;Spanish priest"e; is actually Jacques Collin, alias "e;Vautrin,"e; a master criminal first introduced to readers in Balzac's Father Goriot (1835). Lucien develops a relationship with Esther van Gobseck, a prostitute (the "e;courtesan"e; of the title). With these three main figures - Lucien, Vautrin, and Esther - Balzac explores the corruption of the aristocracy, the world of prostitution, the courts, and the prisons of 19th-century Paris. With masterful depictions of society and individual psychology, Balzac is considered a father of realism in fiction.
