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A professor of English talks about 19th Century novels: plot summary, literary analysis, author biography, historical and cultural context. Each episode closely examines one 19th Century novel.
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Friday Jan 19, 2024
Friday Jan 19, 2024
Chapters 12-17: 0:00—Bourgeois, high and low. 3:38—Stereotypes. 11:30—Cibot seeks her fortune. 14:10—Cartomancy. 20:40—A serpent hatched. 21:34—French Jews. 25:58—Pons’s collection. 27:37—Pons floored. 29:32—Mute despair. 35:09—The terrible comedy. 35:39—Interlude.
Chapter 18-Conclusion: 36:00—The lawyer Fraisier. 38:53—The Gothic. 40:07—Fraisier’s warnings. 43:08—Creditor & caregiver. 46:05—Remonencq & Cibot. 48:30—These two vipers. 51:04—Carrion crows around a corpse. 53:00—Criminal homeopathy. 56:04—Murder by verdigris. 59:16—Complications & wills. 1:02:05—R.I.P. Pons. 1:03:59—Tombstone Street. 1:13:00—Helpful Topinard. 1:14:36—Muddling Schmucke. 1:17:58—Character & corruption. 1:24:27—R.I.P. Balzac.
Text: Honoré de Balzac, Cousin Pons. Translated by Herbert J. Hunt, Penguin, 1968.
Interludes: Beethoven, Symphony #2 (1802), performed by the Columbia Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Bruno Walter, 1959.
Illustration: Balzac's burial memorial, Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris
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