Grandet, Eugénie Honoré de Balzac | Adaline Lincoln Lush (essay date 1932)
Adaline Lincoln Lush (essay date 1932)
SOURCE: "The House of the Miser: Eugénie Grandet," in Studies in Balzac's Realism, by E. Preston Dargan, W. L. Crain, and others, The University of Chicago Press, 1932, pp. 121-35.
[In the essay below, Lush analyzes the characterization and action of Eugénie Grandet.]
The manuscript of Eugénie Grandet was presented to Mme Hanska in December, 1833. This work made its initial appearance in printed form, as a whole, in the first volume of the first edition of the Scènes de la vie de province (1834-37). L'Europe littéraire on September 19, 1833, contained the first chapter and the titles of the remaining chapters. It was not continued as a whole in that publication; but the rest of the novel was written in the autumn of 1833.
The sociological nature of the story is attested by the title of the first chapter: "Physionomies bourgeoises." The remaining...
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