Albert Savarus is better than the last few Balzac works I read, but still a work mostly for those reading through the entire Comedie Humaine. It centers around a complicated full of duplicity plot by the part of the daughter of a prosperous Besancon family to induce Albert Savarus, attorney, aspiring politician and owner-editor of a local literary journal to marry her. Her mother has someone else in mind for her and her father is very preoccupied with his wood working hobby. The obsessive marriage hunts of the period literature can be tiresome. Sometimes there is overmuch love at first sight. The plot is intricate, the characters are not real well defined.
The best part of the work is a story in the literary journal, about two young men on a trip together. The story within the story is better than the whole.
37/91
I have begun A Start in Life, centering on the operation of a stage coach, it starts very well.
Mel u
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Mel,
I hope you are enjoying A Start in Life. I'm glad it starts well. :)
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