Thirty -year -old woman. Balzac O.

The famous novel by Honore de Balzac “Thirty -year -old woman” belongs to the section “Scenes from private life” of the large -scale cycle “Human Comedy”, and it was thanks to him that the winged expression “woman of Balzac age” was born. Work on the text of the novel, composed of independent stories, some of which were previously published in magazines, lasted more than ten years.

In sequentially located stories, the author unfolds the history of Julie D'Eglemon's life, which we meet on the first pages Young girl, without memory in love with the future spouse. Watching the fate of the heroine, the author reflects on the nature of love between a man and a woman and parental love, about modern marriage and modern society.