{"id":2893,"date":"2015-06-26T09:37:54","date_gmt":"2015-06-26T14:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/?p=2893"},"modified":"2015-06-26T09:37:54","modified_gmt":"2015-06-26T14:37:54","slug":"summer-reading-suggestions-karl-marxs-favorite-novelist-honore-de-balzac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/2015\/06\/26\/summer-reading-suggestions-karl-marxs-favorite-novelist-honore-de-balzac\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer reading suggestions. Karl Marx&#8217;s favorite novelist: Honor\u00e9 de Balzac"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"clearfix\">\n<h2 class=\"_5clb\"><a class=\"uiLinkSubtle\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/notes\/monte-bute\/summer-reading-suggestions-karl-marxs-favorite-novelist-honor%C3%A9-de-balzac\/984392088259824\">June 26, 2015 at 9:26am<\/a><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mts _50f8\">\n<div class=\"uiSelector inlineBlock audienceSelector timelineAudienceSelector audienceSelectorNoTruncate dynamicIconSelector uiSelectorNormal uiSelectorDynamicTooltip\">\n<div class=\"uiToggle wrap\"><\/div>\n<p><select><option value=\"\"><\/option><option selected=\"selected\" value=\"80\">Public<\/option><option value=\"40\">Friends<\/option><option value=\"127\">Friends except Acquaintances<\/option><option value=\"10\">Only Me<\/option><option value=\"111\">Custom<\/option><option value=\"258913037481765\">Metropolitan State University<\/option><option value=\"258913040815098\">Woodbury, Minnesota Area<\/option><option value=\"See all lists...\">See all lists&#8230;<\/option><option value=\"737978149575249\">Metropolitan State University<\/option><option value=\"737978142908583\">Inter Faculty Organization<\/option><option value=\"646941162012282\">Metropolitan State University<\/option><option value=\"262281857144883\">Acquaintances<\/option><option value=\"Go Back\">Go Back<\/option><\/select><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"_5k3v _5k3w clearfix\">\n<p>After writing several novels, in 1832 Balzac conceived the idea for an enormous series of books that would paint a panoramic portrait of &#8220;all aspects of society.&#8221; . . .\u00a0Although he originally called it\u00a0<em>Etudes des M\u0153urs<\/em>\u00a0(Study of Mores), it eventually became known as\u00a0<em>La Com\u00e9die Humaine<\/em>, and he included in it all the fiction that he had published in his lifetime. (Wikipedia)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pere Goriot<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Balzac transposes the story of\u00a0<em>King Lear<\/em>\u00a0to 1820s Paris in order to rage at a society bereft of all love save the love of money.\u00a0This example of the French realist novel contrasts the social progress of an impoverished but ambitious aristocrat with the tale of a father, whose obsessive love for his daughters leads to his personal and financial ruin. (Amazon)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Eugenie Grandet\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a gloomy house in provincial Saumur, the miser Grandet lives with his wife and daughter, Eug\u00e9nie, whose lives are stifled and overshadowed by his obsession with gold. Guarding his piles of glittering treasures and his only child equally closely, he will let no one near themHere Grandet embodies both the passionate pursuit of money, and the human cost of avarice. (Amazon)<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Human Comedy: Selected Stories<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Characters from every corner of society and all walks of life\u2014lords and ladies, businessmen and military men, poor clerks,\u00a0 unforgiving moneylenders, aspiring politicians, artists, actresses, swindlers, misers, parasites, sexual adventurers, crackpots,\u00a0 and more\u2014move through the pages of\u00a0<em>The Human Comedy. <\/em>(Amazon)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 26, 2015 at 9:26am PublicFriendsFriends except AcquaintancesOnly MeCustomMetropolitan State UniversityWoodbury, Minnesota AreaSee all lists&#8230;Metropolitan State UniversityInter Faculty OrganizationMetropolitan State UniversityAcquaintancesGo Back After writing several novels, in 1832 Balzac conceived the idea for an enormous series of books that would paint a panoramic portrait of &#8220;all aspects of society.&#8221; . . .\u00a0Although he originally called [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2893"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2905,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2893\/revisions\/2905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}