[.ca] Le cousin pons (ISBN 2070363805)

One of the Balzac's best novels:
I'm a Balzac's french fan. "Cousin Pons" is one of my favourites Balzac's novels. This novels speaks about art (music, paintings, ...), social relationships in a family and in a flat, and over there of FRIENDSHIP. The friendship between Pons and Schmücke is the most facinating aspect of this novel (may be it's more than a frienship : a platonic love ?).

My favorite Balzac:
This novel (Cousin Pons) for some reason is my favorite Balzac novel. Touching, perceptive, melancholy, and filled with brilliant characterization. You might try this if you have never read Balzac, and find out what happens to a "poor relation" who is suddenly discovered to be a "rich relation" by the relatives who have been treating him shabbily for the past three decades. Then of course it's on to "Lost Illusions" and its sequel, "A Harlot High and Low" (Splendeurs et miseres....)