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La Comédie Humaine - Volume 01

1842

Honoré de Balzac

La Comédie Humaine - Volume 01

La Comédie Humaine - Volume 01

Honoré de Balzac

1842

French Literature, Novels

Balzac's La Comédie Humaine is among the most ambitious literary projects in Western fiction: a sprawling interconnected novels spanning French society from the Restoration to the July Monarchy, peopled by over two thousand characters who reappear across multiple volumes. Volume One opens with "Le Lys dans la Vallée" (The Lily in the Valley), a nuanced portrait of young Félix de Vandenesse navigating his passage from adolescence into adulthood through his consuming, impossible love for the married Countess de Mortsauf. This is Balzac at his most tender, mapping the topography of a sensitive heart against the constraints of aristocratic rural life. Yet even here, in what seems a private romance of self-denial and spiritual yearning, Balzac dissects the machinery of social aspiration, inheritance, and the slow violence of arranged marriages. To read this volume is to enter a world where every gesture, every detail of dress and décor, carries the weight of class position and economic reality. Balzac invented the modern realist novel not through ideology but through obsessive, unsentimental attention to how people actually live, scheme, and survive.

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“... o ilk günden beri güneş daha az sıcak, daha az aydınlık, gece daha karanlık oldu; hareket hızını yitirdi, düşüncelere bir ağırlık geldi. Bazı insanları toprağa gömeriz, ama öyle insanlar vardır ki onların kefenleri yüreğimiz olmuştur, anıları her gün kalbimizin çarpışıyla beraberdir, soluk alır gibi onları düşünürüz, aşka özgü bir ruh titreşiminin tatlı yasasıyla varlığımıza sinmişlerdir. Bir ruh var ruhumda. Ben bir iyilik mi ettim, güzel bir söz mü söyledim, içimde bulunan o ruh hareket ediyor, konuşuyor; havaya yayılan güzel kokunun bir zambaktan gelişi gibi.””

— Honoré de Balzac

“Karşılık görmemiş duygular bazı ruhlarda kin haline gelir, bende ise öyle olmadı; yoğunlaştı bu duygular içimde, bir yer etti kendine, sonra da oradan hayatıma fışkırdı.””

— Honoré de Balzac

“Instead of inspiring the gallant attentions which other women seek, she made men dream,””

— Honoré de Balzac

“She was, as you know already without as yet knowing anything, the Lily of this valley, where she grew for heaven, filling it with the fragrance of her virtues.””

— Honoré de Balzac

“Croyez-le, le véritable amour est éternel, infini, toujours semblable à lui-même ; il est égal et pur, sans démonstrations violentes ; il se voit en cheveux blancs, toujours jeune de cœur.”“True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart."(Always from Kindle Alexander)””

— Honoré de Balzac

“Düşüncelerimi kendi üzerime çevirerek düşündüm: Kendisinin de özgür kalmasını dileyecek kadar sevmiyordu beni. Sevgi suç işlemekten kaçınırsa sınırı var gibi görünür bize; oysa sevgi sonsuz olmalıdır. Kalbim korkunç burkuldu. "Sevmiyor beni!" diye düşündüm.””

— Honoré de Balzac

“- Zor geçen günler vardır, dedim.-Ruhumu okudunuz, dedi. Peki ama, nasıl?- O kadar çok bakımlardan birbirimize benziyoruz ki! diye karşılık verdim. Acı çekmek için de, zevk duymak için de imtiyazlı yaratılmış yaratıklardan- sayısı pek az olan o yaratıklardan- değil miyiz ikimiz de? Bu gibilerin duyarlıkları hep birden titreşir, içten içe derin yankılar doğurur, sinir düzenleri her şeyin olması gereken ilkesiyle uyum halindedir. Onları her şeyin uyumsuz olduğu bir ortama getirin koyun, korkunç acı çekerler. Bunun gibi, kendilerine uygun gelen düşüncelerle, duygularla ya da kimselerle karşılaşınca da sevinçleri coşkunluk derecesine varır...””

— Honoré de Balzac

“Başkalarının mutluluğu, artık mutlu olamayacakların sevinci olur.””

— Honoré de Balzac

“became Secretary to the King's Council, at which time he changed his name to Balzac and added the particle de, both of which denoted nobility. Bernard-François's marriage to Balzac's mother, Anne Laure Sallambier, was a union made for purposes of convenience, rather than love. Although there was a thirty-two year age difference between the two, Balzac's mother came from a wealthy family of drapemakers and thus held great appeal. Her substantial dowry was another factor that distanced her husband from his impoverished childhood. Honoré de Balzac – named after Saint Honoré of Amiens – was the second Balzac child, although his older brother died as an infant. Balzac's parents would go on to have three more children: two girls, Laure and Laurence (born 1800 and 1802), followed by Henry-François (born 1807). Immediately following his birth, Balzac was placed””

— Honoré de Balzac

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