Thirty -year -old woman. Balzac O.D.

“Thirty -year -old woman” occupies an honorable place in the heritage of Balzac, complementing the bright palette of “scenes from private life”. The elegant and tender narrative of love in its highest manifestations at the same time became a requiem for marital life. The heroine of the novel, Julie, the outstanding, independent and free in the manifestation of feelings, the woman says goodbye to youthful illusions and is disappointed in marriage. After all, "we are often destroyed not by the sorrows themselves, but by lost hopes." And when you melt from the indifference and coldness of your husband, doesn’t it “sometimes seem that legalized love is more painful than criminal passion”?