Author: Honore de Balzac
Translator: Cheol Lee
Publisher: Munhakgwa Jiseongsa
194 pages | 176*124mm
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About This Book
Contents:
1. Sarrasine
2. The Hidden Masterpiece
3. The Exiles
Sarrasine
Ernest-Jean Sarrasine's father was a wealthy attorney, but he went
against his father's will and became a sculptor. He was a success in
Paris, winning a prize and much praise. Sarrasine then goes to Rome,
burning with ambition. He has only been in Rome a fortnight when he
happens to pass the Argentina theatre at a time when there is an
enormous crowd gathered to see Zambinella and Jomelli. His first
experience hearing Italian music plunges him into an ecstasy of delight.
When he sees Zambinella he describes her to himself as "more than a
woman, a masterpiece."
The Hidden Masterpiece
A successful painter and his protege visit an old master who has
overworked himself. For ten years he has worked on his masterpiece
without anyone yet obtaining the merest glimpse of it.
The Exiles
Les Proscrits (The Exiles) was placed by Balzac in the Philosophical
group. It takes place in the 14th century, several centuries prior to
the bulk of the Human Comedy. In the year 1308 few houses were yet
standing on the Island formed by the alluvium and sand deposited by the
Seine above the Cite, behind the Church of Notre-Dame. The first man who
was so bold as to build on this strand, then liable to frequent floods,
was a constable of the watch of the City of Paris, who had been able to
do some service to their Reverences the Chapter of the Cathedral; and in
return the Bishop leased him twenty-five perches of land, with exemption
from all feudal dues or taxes on the buildings he might erect... One
evening in April in the year 1308, Tirechair came home in a remarkably
bad temper. For three days past everything had been in good order on the
King's highway. Now, as an officer of the peace, nothing annoyed him so
much as to feel himself useless. He flung down his halbert in a rage...
-- Dagny
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