Cousin Bette - Red Cat Classics

Considered the last great novel that Balzac wrote before his death, Cousin Bette is a classic work about revenge, passion, weakness and virtue. Cousin Bette, in the grip of jealousy towards her relatives who have a happy family life, gets alone with the beautiful and sultry Valerie, whom her flirtatious brother-in-law covets, and organizes intrigues and plans the collapse of her large family. In the post-revolutionary French bourgeois society, where money became the only purpose, Balzac, who dealt in fine detail with the inner worlds of women who used love for comfort and status and men who spent their power to get women, also introduced the love intrigues that continue to be repeated in today's soap opera scenarios to literature. Cousin Bette is one of the most important elements of the 12-volume Human Comedy by Balzac, the creator of realism and naturalism movements.

"Although Balzac's work, Cousin Bette, is one of the first examples of the experimental novel, it contains strong observations on both human relations and the changes in French society in the early 19th century."
Emile Zola.



Number of Pages: 480

Year of Printing: 2013


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Red Cat

Number of Pages: 480

First Printing Year: 2013

Language Turkish