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Title: Farewell
Author: Honore de Balzac
Narrator: Martin Geeson
Length: 2 hrs 28 mins
Language: English
Release date: 1/1/2016
Publisher: LibriVox
Genres: Fiction & Literature, Classics
Publisher's Summary:
In his startling and tragic novella Farewell (Adieu), Balzac adds to the 19th centurys literature of the hysterical woman: sequestered, confined in her madness; mute, or eerily chanting in her moated grange. The first Mrs Rochester lurks in the wings; the Lady of Shalott waits for the shadowy reflection of the world outside to shatter her illusion. Freuds earliest patients will soon enter the waiting-room in their turn.
Whilst out hunting two friends come across a strange waif-like woman shut up in a decaying chateau which one of them dubs the Palace of the Sleeping Beauty. Soon we are dragged back to the terrible masculine reality of the 1812 retreat of Napoleons army from Moscow and the grotesque massacre that was to traumatise the heroine, parting her from her lover.
Their reunion is more desperate still, as the earlier event is recreated in a bizarre and vain attempt to root out madness and compel the return of happiness
(Summary by Martin Geeson)
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Title: Farewell
Author: Honore de Balzac
Narrator: Martin Geeson
Length: 2 hrs 28 mins
Language: English
Release date: 1/1/2016
Publisher: LibriVox
Genres: Fiction & Literature, Classics
Publisher's Summary:
In his startling and tragic novella Farewell (Adieu), Balzac adds to the 19th centurys literature of the hysterical woman: sequestered, confined in her madness; mute, or eerily chanting in her moated grange. The first Mrs Rochester lurks in the wings; the Lady of Shalott waits for the shadowy reflection of the world outside to shatter her illusion. Freuds earliest patients will soon enter the waiting-room in their turn.
Whilst out hunting two friends come across a strange waif-like woman shut up in a decaying chateau which one of them dubs the Palace of the Sleeping Beauty. Soon we are dragged back to the terrible masculine reality of the 1812 retreat of Napoleons army from Moscow and the grotesque massacre that was to traumatise the heroine, parting her from her lover.
Their reunion is more desperate still, as the earlier event is recreated in a bizarre and vain attempt to root out madness and compel the return of happiness
(Summary by Martin Geeson)