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Cousin Pons: Part Two of 'Poor Relations' (Classics) Book
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Foyles
Mild, harmless and ugly to behold, the impoverished Pons is an ageing musician whose brief fame has fallen to nothing. Living a placid Parisian life as a bachelor in a shared apartment with his friend Schmucke, he maintains only two passions: a devotion to fine dining in the company of wealthy but disdainful relatives, and a dedication to the collection of antiques. When these relatives become aware of the true value of his art collection, however, their sneering contempt for the parasitic Pons rapidly falls away as they struggle to obtain a piece of the weakening man's inheritance. Taking its place in the Human Comedy as a companion to Cousin Bette, the darkly humorous Cousin Pons is among of the last and greatest of Balzac's novels concerning French urban society: a cynical, pessimistic but never despairing consideration of human nature.
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Penguin
The companion novel to Cousin Bette, Cousin Pons offers a diametrically opposite view of the nature of family relationships, focusing on a mild, harmless old man.
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Pickabook
Honore de Balzac, Herbert James Hunt (Trans)
- 0140442057
- 9780140442052
- Honore Balzac
- 29 June 2006
- Penguin Classics
- Paperback (Book)
- 336
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