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Mild, harmless and ugly to behold, the impoverished Pons is an ageing musician whose brief fame has fallen to nothing. Living a placid Parisian life as a bachelor in a shared apartment with his friend Schmucke, he maintains only two passions: a devotion to fine dining in the... Read Full Overview

Le Cousin Pons is one of the last of the 94 novels and short stories that make up Honor? de Balzac's Com?die humaine. Begun in 1846 as a novella, it was envisaged as one part of a diptych, Les Parents pauvres (The Poor Relations), along with La Cousine Bette (Cousin Bette). The... Read Full Overview

Towards three o'clock in the afternoon of one October day in the year 1844, a man of sixty or thereabouts, whom anybody might have credited with more than his actual age, was walking along the Boulevard des Italiens with his head bent down, as if he were tracking some one. There... Read Full Overview

Ouvrage pessimiste, roman noir o se d ploient dans leur hideur un univers cruel, une jungle hant e par des fauves inqui tants, Le Cousin Pons nous pr sente un monde criminel, en haut comme en bas, du salon la loge de concierge. Au beau milieu de ce si cle sordide, Sylvain... Read Full Overview

Cousin Pons (1847) is a novel by French author Honor de Balzac. One of the final works in Balzac's La Com die humaine sequence, Cousin Pons originally began as a novella before being extended to the length of a novel. It serves as both a beautiful meditation... Read Full Overview

Ouvrage pessimiste, roman noir o se dploient dans leur hideur un univers cruel, une jungle hante par des fauves inquitants, Le Cousin Pons nous prsente un monde criminel, en haut comme en bas, du salon la loge de concierge. Au beau milieu de ce sicle sordide, Sylvain Pons prend... Read Full Overview

Cousin Pons

Cousin Pons is one of the last and greatest of Balzac's novels of French urban society: a cynical, pessimistic but never despairing consideration of human nature. The book tells the story of Sylvain Pons, a poor moderately successful musician who is swindled by his wealthy relatives... Read Full Overview

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Towards three o'clock in the afternoon of one October day in the year 1844, a man of sixty or thereabouts, whom anybody might have credited with more than his actual age, was walking along the Boulevard des Italiens with his head bent down, as if he were tracking some one. There... Read Full Overview

Cousin Pons (1847) is a novel by French author Honor de Balzac. One of the final works in Balzac's La Com die humaine sequence, Cousin Pons originally began as a novella before being extended to the length of a novel. It serves as both a beautiful meditation... Read Full Overview