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Titel: Eugénie Grandet
Autor:: Honoré de Balzac
Erzähler: Elisabeth Trissenaar
Format: Unabridged
Spieldauer: 8 hrs and 39 mins
Sprache: Deutsch
Veröffentlichungsdatum: 03-28-13
Herausgeber: SWR Edition
Kategorien: Classics, World Literature
Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:
Regie: Hartmut Kirste, Übersetzer: Michael Scheffel.
Mitglieder Bewertungen:
At Daggers Drawn
Perfect. Or as close to perfection as Balzac gets. The opening 22-page section is a master class for any aspiring novelist in how to set the scene, introduce the characters, suggest the conflicts, reveal the theme, set a whole fictional world spinning on its axis, all with an economy of means as present here as it is absent from the exasperating PERE GORIOT.
Characters are distinct individuals and thus an unsolvable mystery to others as well as themselves. Yet each gets his or her due - even the miser whose avarice is a logical alternative to the religious fanaticism of wife and daughter. When he sings and dances a jig after cornering gold, we happily join in! Novel stands or falls, of course, with the characterization of Eugenie: it is flawless. A portrayal of a young woman besieged by passion for the first time - how it consumes her, elates her, debases her, destroys her - is rendered with such psychological accuracy, such telling detail, such delicacy of touch and subtlety of shading, even at times with such humor, that the encomiums about Balzac that sometimes puzzle us finally ring true:
"In Balzac, every living soul is a weapon loaded to the very muzzle with will."
Baudelaire
"Balzac's great glory is that he pretended hardest."
James
"The nineteenth century, as we know it, is largely an invention of Balzac's."
Wilde
A good read
This is the second novel by Balzac I have read (Old Goriot the first) and I am quickly becoming a fan. I am looking forward to reading Cousin Bette. I agree with another reviewer who found it difficult to believe that Eugenie could fall so deeply in love with her cousin after one meeting. One might also wonder why the book was titled after Eugenie since the majority of the novel focused on her disgustingly greedy father. Eugnie did not become the main character until the last fourth of the novel. That aside, this is a good story and I enthusiastically recommend it.
One of Balzaz's best
I don't know how many folks read Balzac these days. If one wanted to try one of his novels, this would be the one to try. It is not difficult to read and is not long. I have read a number of his novels and this was one of the best. If you do not care for this book, there is probably little point in trying the others.
Well, It's Balzac
If you didn't dig anything else Balzac penned, you won't like this either.
Good setting, a little like a travel brochure in a couple of places, but overall..I like it.
Extraordinary teller of its time
What a detailed account of the vices and virtues, the places and the social architecture of the time. The voice of the narrator speaks to you so intimately a sense of being there is created. Surprised as one discovers we as humans have not changed much in 200 years...