Thirty -year -old woman. Balzac O. de

“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 the criminal passion“?

”... and since in France, and in the whole world, Thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of women feel incomprehensible and disappointed, they gain a doctor in Balzac, who was the first to name their ailment. He excuses any of their wrong step, unless this step is made of love, he decides to say that not only a “thirty -year -old woman”, but also a “forty -year -old woman”, and even she, who has known and everything that befell, has the highest right to love ". Stefan Zweig