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Le Cousin Pons (French pronunciation: [lə kuzɛ̃ pɔ̃s]) is one of the last of the 94 novels and short stories that make up Honoré de Balzac’s Comédie 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 ).
- Honoré de Balzac
- 1847
Cousin Pons, novel by Honoré de Balzac, published in 1847 as Le Cousin Pons. One of the novels that makes up Balzac’s series La Comédie humaine ( The Human Comedy ), Cousin Pons is often paired with La Cousine Bette under the title Les Parents pauvres (“The Poor Relations”).
- Honoré de Balzac
- 1847
Le Cousin Pons est un roman d’Honoré de Balzac, paru en feuilleton en 1847 dans Le Constitutionnel, et publié en volume la même année. Ce roman fait partie des Scènes de la vie parisienne dans la section Les Parents pauvres , où Le Cousin Pons voisine avec La Cousine Bette , dont il est en quelque sorte le symétrique.
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Le Cousin Pons is the second part ofHistoire des parents pauvres, which appeared as a serial in the daily Le Constitutionnel from October 1846 to March 1847. This major work comprises two equally famous symmetrical novels, La Cousine Bette and Le Cousin Pons.
Cousin Pons. Honoré de Balzac, Herbert J. Hunt (Introduction) 3.98. 1,542 ratings121 reviews. Mild, harmless and ugly to behold, the impoverished Pons is an ageing musician whose brief fame has fallen to nothing.
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Hemmings’ chapter 8, “The Dialectic,” presents an analysis of Cousin Pons, finding the late novel to be one of Balzac’s most pessimistic but also one of his most profound works. Levin, Harry.
Jun 4, 2019 · Le Cousin Pons, sometimes considered a “novel of friendship,” comes, along with La Cousine Bette, at the end of Balzac’s series of novels: Cousin Pons being the last completed one. First planned in 1844, and set in that year, so giving an entirely contemporary history, its plot concerns Pons, the old bachelor and musician and collector of ...
