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This book is a classic novel by the great French critical realist writer Balzac, translated by Fu Lei. The protagonist Aunt Bet is a very special figure in Balzac's works. The novel is named after her, which shows that the writer attaches great importance to her. Readers who like Balzac's works should not miss this book. The story told in the work takes place in Paris in 1838 and revolves around the fate of Baron Hulot de Hervé and his family. The character of Baron Hulot carries many of Balzac's reflections on human nature in his later years. In addition to sharing the common features of other paranoid images in "The Human Comedy", his portrayal also has its own deep meaning, which is an important symbol of the author's critical realism creation reaching a new height. Balzac interspersed his wonderful narrative with unique views on family, marriage, the joy of men and women, and love, and gave strict definitions to these. The humorous and ironic language gives readers a pleasant surprise when they are eager to find out the ending and are immersed in the black atmosphere created by the story.

"Eugenie Grandet" is a novel by Balzac. It tells the story of Eugenie, the only daughter of the miserly and shrewd millionaire Grandet. She falls in love with her bankrupt cousin. For his sake, she does not hesitate to anger her money-loving father and spends all her private savings to help him make his way into the world. At this point, the relationship between father and daughter broke down, and the timid and virtuous mother was so frightened that she fell ill. The girl who lost her parents and her youth in the bitter expectation is waiting for a heartless man who has returned rich.

"Honorina" mainly describes all living beings in the money society, and writes stories about various people's encounters with money in this era. Honorina is a person who intentionally stays away from the money society, and her escape is also a story of encounter. When Balzac wrote Honorine, he was really more emotional than at any other time, maybe because Honorine is so rare. However, noble beauty is born with dirty beauty, and it is a pity that it is impossible to escape even if you have wings.

"The Woman Who Stirred the Water" is a novel that reflects the life in France at that time by describing the struggle for inheritance. It reveals the shamelessness and darkness of the upper class from the side. It is one of the most thrilling stories in Balzac's series of novels. One is the leader of a group of idle ruffians, and the other is a very scheming soldier. They are both extraordinary officers in Napoleon's old army. Both are experts in leading troops in battles, but they use their bravery and resourcefulness in fighting to fight for a considerable inheritance... In Balzac's view, the reason why people in society are diverse is because they live in different environments, so he attaches great importance to the creation and portrayal of the environment. Through the detailed description of the environment, the impact of the environment on the characters is emphasized.

In 1819, several tenants lived in the Vauquer apartment in Paris, including Goriot, a retired flour merchant known as "Old Goriot", Rastignac, a poor but ambitious student, and Vautrin, who was easy-going on the outside but cold on the inside. Old Man Goriot, who spends every penny in his own life, dotes on his two daughters who have married into the upper class, and uses the wealth he has accumulated throughout his life to satisfy his daughters' extravagance; Rastignac, a poor young man from the mainland, witnesses the extravagance of Paris aristocrats, vows to get ahead, and hopes to rise to the top by befriending noble ladies; The hypocritical Vautrin was a fugitive from prison who had been hiding in the corner, waiting for an opportunity to seize wealth... Seeing that Goriot's family property was squeezed out by his two daughters, and he did not even see his daughter for the last time before his death. Vautrin's conspiracy failed, his identity was exposed and he was caught. Rastignac seemed to see through the hypocrisy and absurdity of this upper class society, and he was determined to challenge the society...

This is the story of two talented and ambitious young people whose ideals were shattered. Through the experiences of two young men, the author unfolds the broad social landscape of the French Restoration period. This novel almost concentrates the author's most important life experiences and deepest thoughts and feelings. Balzac claimed that "Disillusionment" is "the first book among my works."

"Eugenie Grandet": takes the protagonist Grandet's family life as the main line, and Eugenie's love tragedy as the core of the conflict. There are no poisons, no sharp knives, and no bloodshed in the novel, but it perfectly portrays the image of Grandet, a cruel, greedy, and miserly capitalist. It profoundly exposes Grandet's ugly way of getting rich and his ignorant view of money, and successfully creates an immortal image of a miser in the history of world literature. With its comic exaggeration, personalized language and detailed character description, the novel has achieved considerable literary achievements, marking a new leap in the ideological and artistic aspects of Balzac's works. "Petro Goriot": In 1819, the Vauquer apartment in Paris lived with several tenants including Goriot, a retired flour merchant known as "Petro Goriot", the poor but ambitious student Rastignac, and the easy-going but cold-hearted Vautrin. Old Man Goriot, who spends every penny in his own life, dotes on his two daughters who have married into the upper class, and uses the wealth he has accumulated throughout his life to satisfy his daughters' extravagance; Rastignac, a poor young man from the mainland, witnesses the extravagance of Paris aristocrats, vows to get ahead, and hopes to rise to the top by befriending noble ladies; The hypocritical Vautrin was a fugitive from prison who had been hiding in the corner, waiting for an opportunity to seize wealth... Seeing that Goriot's family property was squeezed out by his two daughters, and he did not even see his daughter for the last time before his death. Vautrin's conspiracy failed, his identity was exposed and he was caught. Rastignac seemed to see through the hypocrisy and absurdity of this upper class society, and he was determined to challenge the society...

Mr. Fu Lei carefully selected 14 must-read Balzac masterpieces for Chinese readers. It is an introductory book for understanding Balzac! After reading it four or five times and revising six or seven drafts, Fu Lei devoted twenty years of effort to translating "The Collected Works of Balzac"! Hugo: "There is a lot of truth, kindness, homeliness, triviality, and vulgarity here. However, sometimes the surface is suddenly torn apart to fully reveal the various realities, and people can immediately see the gloomy and tragic ideals." "When it comes to greatness among French novelists, Balzac should be mentioned first." This set of "Fou Lei's Translation of Balzac's Works" "Collection" contains 14 works carefully selected for Chinese readers by Mr. Fu Lei, a master in French translation. These works are not only "Balzac's excellent works more suitable for Chinese readers", but also "Balzac's novels familiar to general French literary and art lovers". It can be said to be an introductory book for understanding Balzac! Fu Lei began to translate "Alpe Savaron" in 1944 and completed the translation of "Mao Er Bao Bang Bang" in 1965, which took 20 years. He said to himself: "If you want to translate a favorite work, you have to read it four or five times before you can remember the plot and story thoroughly, analyze it thoroughly, make the characters as vivid as the present, and slowly feel out the subtle meaning hidden between the lines." Fu Lei's translation needs to be revised at least 6 or 7 times from the first draft to the final draft. "Old Man Goriot" has been retranslated three times. "Collection of Balzac's Works Translated by Fu Lei" includes: "Petro Goriot", "Colonel Chabe", "Honorine", "Confinement", "Alpe Savaron", "Eugénie Grandet", "Usure Miloët", "The Curate of Tours", "Pierrelande", "The Troublemaker", "Disillusionment", "Auntie Bence", "Uncle Bangs" and "The Rise and Fall of Cesar Pirodo".

Philippe, a retired army officer from Paris, was up to no good. When he heard that his uncle Rogee had a large inheritance in the countryside of Isoutun, he came to the countryside to make careful plans. Max, the rogue leader of Isutun, is idle and does all kinds of bad things. He colludes with Luo Ri's mistress Flor, and also covets the inheritance of old Luo Ri. Because of Flor's instigation, the two began a life-and-death struggle, which eventually turned into a duel...

"Petro Goriot" takes Paris in late 1819 and early 1820 as the social background. Through the story of the noodle merchant Goriot and his two daughters, as well as the "history of struggle" of the young college student Rastignac, it describes the bizarre and bizarre life of Paris society.

"Disillusionment" reveals the inside story of the literary and journalistic circles, and concentrates the author's main life experiences and deep feelings about life. It is one of the valuable works in "Human Comedy". The novel tells the story of two talented and ambitious young people who failed in their struggles and had their ideals shattered: one was a talented young man who dreamed of gaining fame in the literary world with his pen, but in a society where literature has been reduced to a commodity, he degenerated into a shameless literary slave who sold his soul and was ruined in the strife and party struggles in the literary world; The work reflects the social situation and mental state of an entire generation of young people after the French Revolution.

"Disillusionment" reveals the inside story of the literary and journalistic circles, and concentrates the author's most important life experiences and deep feelings about life. It is one of the most valuable works in "Human Comedy". The novel tells the story of two talented and ambitious young people who failed in their struggles and had their ideals shattered. The work reflects the social situation and mental state of an entire generation of young people after the French Revolution. The translator is Fu Lei, a famous Chinese translator and writer. He has hated evil all his life. Most of his translation works focus on exposing social ills and describing the struggles and struggles of characters. He proposed that "in terms of effect, translation should be like a painting, seeking not resemblance in form but resemblance in spirit". He believed that "the ideal translation should be as if it were the Chinese writing of the original author" and required that "the translation must be pure Chinese, free of stiffness and awkwardness". Fu Lei translated forty-three literary masterpieces in his lifetime, and various Chinese translations have been published in nearly 10 million copies. As far as the introduction of French literature is concerned, no one can match the number of translations, the distinctive features of the translations, and the great influence of the translations.

The novel describes Grandet's family life - the cunning, greedy, stingy and cruel upstart father Grandet, his daughter Eugenie who longs for love but is indifferent to money, and Eugenie's cousin Charles, a vain, cruel and greedy Parisian swinger. It revolves around Eugenie's love tragedy and tells a story about how money destroys humanity and causes family tragedy. This book is "one of the most outstanding pictures" in the "Human Comedy" series by French critical realist writer Balzac. Grandet is one of the four classic images of a miser in the history of world literature.

The novel tells the story of two talented and ambitious young people who failed in their struggles and were disillusioned with their ideals. One was a talented young man who dreamed of gaining fame in the literary world with his pen. However, in a society where literature has been reduced to a commodity, he degenerated into a shameless literary slave who sold his soul and was ruined in the literary world and party struggles. The work reflects the social situation and mental state of an entire generation of young people after the French Revolution.

This is a novel that reflects the commercialization of literature and art and the shady story of the press. It is also one of the most profound masterpieces in "The Human Comedy" and the one that best reflects the spirit of the times. Through the encounters of two talented and ambitious young people, the novel reflects the situation and mental state of an entire generation of young people after the French Revolution. It points out that with the disintegration of the feudal system and the victory of capitalism, there will inevitably be competition between people, which will inevitably produce poems of personal struggle and tragedies of shattered ideals.

"Selected Short Stories of Balzac" is divided into short stories such as "Sahasi", "Unrecognizable Masterpiece", "A Street in Paris and Its Residents", etc.

"Eugénie Grandet" is "one of the most outstanding pictures" in "The Human Comedy" by French critical realist novelist Balzac. The novel narrates a story of money destroying human nature and causing family tragedy. It revolves around the central event of Eugenie's love tragedy, and uses three intertwined plot threads to connect the novel: the waves caused by the autocracy within the Grandet family, the open and secret fights between the bankers and notaries outside the family, and the painful life experience of Eugenie's love for Charles Grandet and Charlie's betrayal.

Rastignac, a college student, came to Paris to study from a small place. He lived in a dilapidated apartment and aspired to join the upper class society. After careful planning, he met the little daughter of his neighbor, Old Man Gao, and became her lover. When family affection encountered the impact of money, Old Man Gao watched helplessly as his beloved relatives embarked on the road of betrayal...??

"Aunt Bei" is a novel written by French writer Balzac in his later years. The story takes place in Paris in 1838 and revolves around the fate of Baron Hulot de Hervé and his family. The Baron had served as a military auditor and director of munitions in the republican era. Now he was the head of one of the most important departments of the War Department, and was also a counselor of state. He was awarded the second class of the Legion of Honor. The novel describes how, driven by crazy passion that lost his reason and morality, he gradually ruined the reputation of his family and the honor of the army, embarked on the criminal path of speculation, fraud, and embezzled military funds, and finally lost his reputation. Hulot is a very symbolic character. His fall means the end of the glory of the old era and reflects the moral corruption of the entire upper class.

"Colonel Chabe - Selected Novels and Novels by Balzac" is a collection of Balzac's short stories and short stories, including "The Cat Ball Shop", "Gobusek", "Double Family", "Colonel Chabe", "The Abandoned Woman", "The Atheist at Mass" and "The Privacy of the Princesse de Cardignan".

This book collects seven short stories and short stories by Balzac: "The Executioner", "Family Revenge", "The Potion of Longevity", "Cornelius the Boss", "The Unknown Masterpiece", "Felagius" and "Big Bretesh". These seven short stories and short stories are all outstanding works of Balzac, which reflect the main artistic characteristics of this master of realism.

This book is Balzac's masterpiece. It is based on the French society during the Bourbon Restoration. Through the shaping of "typical characters in typical environments", it depicts a panoramic view of Parisian society that uses money as a lever: "Balzac's character is not just a character, but a typical example of the era. The tragic factors are not limited to personal temperament, but especially the licentious and corrupt social environment. Madame Beauseant represents the declining nobility. The family ends up in seclusion, and Rastignac and Vautrin represent the two styles of the emerging class: one penetrates into society like a plague, and the other blasts into society like a cannonball. The interplay between the struggle of careerists for fame and fortune and the desperate fatherly love of Goriot make the content of the novel even more bizarre and touching." The translator Chen Jing is an associate professor of French at Beijing International Studies University, and her main research interests are French women's literature and comparative literature. The guide, Wu Yuetian, is a researcher at the Institute of Foreign Languages ​​and Literatures of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, a doctoral supervisor, the president of the French Literature Research Association in China, and a member of the Chinese Writers Association.

Balzac was a French literary giant of the 19th century. His novels are collectively called "Human Comedy", among which "Eugenie Grandet" and "Petro Goriot" are his masterpieces. "Eugenie Grandet" vividly reproduces the provincial life in France in the 19th century and creates various characters, especially the cunning and stingy upstart Old Man Grandet, which reveals the money relationship between people in society at that time. "Petro Goriot" tells the story of what happened in Vauquer's apartment in a remote neighborhood of Paris, describing the bizarre and bizarre aspects of Parisian society. The author examines and judges life with superb artistic means.

This is the story of two talented and ambitious young people whose ideals were shattered. Through the experiences of two young men, the author unfolds the broad social landscape of the French Restoration period. This novel almost concentrates the author's most important life experiences and deepest thoughts and feelings. Balzac claimed that "Disillusionment" is "the first book among my works."

"The Woman Who Stirred the Water", a novel with inheritance dispute as the main plot, can be regarded as one of the most thrilling scenes in "Human Comedy". The two sides in the fight are Max Gillet, the leader of the local "Easy Riders" gang of idle scoundrels, and Philippe Bridoux, a very scheming soldier. The former is the lover of the troubled woman who firmly controls the rich man Lu Jie, and the latter is Lu Jie's new nephew. Both were once extraordinary officers in Napoleon's old army, experts in leading troops and ambush. The two demons used their bravery and resourcefulness to compete for a considerable fortune. Needless to say, this contest was fierce and intense.

This is the story of two talented and ambitious young people whose ideals were shattered. Through the experiences of two young men, the author unfolds the broad social landscape of the French Restoration period. This novel almost concentrates the author's most important life experiences and deepest thoughts and feelings. Balzac claimed that "Disillusionment" is "the first book among my works."

"Petro Goriot" is set in the French society during the Restoration of the Bourbon Dynasty. It tells the story of two daughters raised by Mr. Goriot who made a fortune in business. After marriage, under the influence of the upper-class lifestyle, they squeezed their father's property, damaged their father's dignity, and tortured their father's emotions until they had nothing and died of physical and mental exhaustion. Intertwined with this main line is the experience of the provincial young man Rastignac breaking into Paris's upper class society and recognizing all the temptations and dangers involved. The main characters in Balzac's masterpiece "The Human Comedy" appear one after another in this novel, thus opening the prelude to the "Human Comedy".

"The Misery of the Inventor" is one of the "Disillusionment" trilogy and a classic work of Balzac, the great French critical realist writer. This is a novel that reflects the commercialization of literature and art and the shady story of the press. It is also one of the most profound masterpieces in "The Human Comedy" and the one that best reflects the spirit of the times. It is also a particularly profound book. Most of the encounters of the main characters in the book are taken from the writer's own experience. He has experienced almost all of their passions, fantasies and sufferings personally. Through the experiences of two talented and ambitious young people, the novel reflects the situation and mental state of an entire generation of young people after the French Revolution. The work points out that with the disintegration of the feudal system and the victory of capitalism, there will inevitably be competition among people, which will inevitably produce poems of personal struggle and tragedies of shattered ideals.

"The Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau" tells the story of a pollen dealer who seemed ordinary in all respects. Because of his ridiculous ambition, he plummeted from the peak of prosperity and turned into a pauper who lost all his money. However, his "extremely honest" virtue and his efforts to atone for his sins gave his suffering a brilliance of martyrdom. The golden age was his unlucky beginning, and when the final victory came, his life also came to an end. In this way, Birotteau, who was not easily interested in readers, finally became one of the important characters that has been tested for a long time and has not become outdated on the stage of "Human Comedy". The work is not only a commercial novel with historical significance, but also a very interesting bourgeois genre painting.

The original title of "Dulan Funny Stories" is "Hundred Funny Stories", which is a collection of short stories in the style of "The Decameron". The author pretends that this is a manuscript preserved in the monastery of Touraine and compiled and published specifically for the entertainment of the Pantagruelists. In fact, these stories are all written by Balzac, but they only use the background and themes from the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries, imitating the language of the sixteenth century and Rabelais's bold, straightforward, lively and vivid writing style. The content mostly involves human affairs and personal relationships between men and women. However, under the cover of all kinds of frivolous jokes and vulgar words, there is no lack of penetrating satire and praise of beautiful human emotions. The translator, Shi Kangqiang, is a famous French translator and writer in China. In this book, Balzac uses Old French. At the request of Xia Wen, senior French editor of the Humanities Society, he translated this strange book in a style that imitates the Song and Yuan dialects. It is both faithful to the original text and consistent in form and tone. It is a rare translation masterpiece.

The main facts of "Bielande" are simple, but the intertwined factors are bizarre; because a person's external appearance may be simple, his actions may be boring, and not worth talking about, and his mental and emotional fluctuations are always complicated. In the case of Pierrelande, the large and small accidents around her caused her tragedy from beginning to end. In the play, her misfortune seems to be incomprehensible; for other characters, all developments are in line with the logic of struggle. Not only are they expected, but the motivations and goals are very clear. After careful planning and deliberate promotion: Pierrelande is just an ant they stepped on on the ladder to climb up.

As one of Balzac's best works, "Petro Goriot" is representative in showing the breadth and depth of social life. The novel is set in Paris in the early 19th century and describes two parallel and intersecting stories: Goriot, a retired noodle seller, was neglected by his two daughters and tragically died in the attic of the "House of Vaguer"; young Rastignac embarked on a path of depravity under the corruption of Parisian society. Through the two constantly alternating stages of a shabby apartment and a luxurious aristocratic salon, the writer paints pictures of the materialistic society in Paris, exposing the moral decay and callousness of people under the control of money, and revealing the end of the aristocracy during the restoration of the Bourbon dynasty.

Oscar graduated from high school and went to the suburban areas to look for job opportunities. Because of his vanity, Oscar boasted about his close relationship with the count on the public carriage, thus causing great trouble. His mother begged relatives and friends, which gave him the opportunity to go to Paris to study law and become an assistant in a notary office. But he couldn't resist the temptation, lost public funds in gambling, and was fired by his boss. Desperate, Oscar had no choice but to join the army, lost an arm in the war, received awards for meritorious service, and became a modern middle-class figure. The novel describes two common mistakes made by young people who have just entered society: talking nonsense and spending money randomly. It is still of educational significance today.

An encyclopedia of human nature, written about everyone you may meet in your life! Fu Lei, a leading figure in the field of French translation, spent 25 years and carefully translated 15 selected articles, all of which are included! The missing article "Cat Ball Store" was carefully translated and proofread by Luo Xinzhang, the "successor of Fu's translation". The author Balzac is the Napoleon of literature, a mirror of French society, and the spiritual leader of many literary greats such as Hugo, Proust, Zweig, Hardy, Maugham, and Mu Xin! In the common spiritual world of mankind, "Human Comedy" uses 91 novels and more than 2,400 typical images to integrate various aspects of the world and write about everyone you may encounter in your life. This is an encyclopedia of human nature, a rare literary monument!

"Eugénie Grandet" is Balzac's famous work and "one of the outstanding pictures" in "The Human Comedy". The novel tells a story about money destroying a family. "Petro Goriot" takes Paris in late 1819 and early 1820 as the social background. Through the story of the noodle merchant Goriot and his two daughters, as well as the "history of struggle" of the young college student Rastignac, it describes the bizarre and bizarre life of Paris society. "Aunt Bei" is an important work of Balzac. The novel is based on the life of the French upper class in the mid-19th century, and takes the fate of Baron Hulot de Hervé's family as the main line. It tells the story of how the baron, driven by crazy passion, betrayed his pure wife step by step, hurt his innocent daughter, ruined the family's reputation, tarnished the army's reputation, and was ultimately ruined. "Uncle Bangs" is Balzac's masterpiece and is known as the "peak of his art". Through Uncle Bangs, Balzac vividly presents to us the greatness and nobility of mankind, as well as the humbleness, ugliness and filth of mankind. "The Peasant" is Balzac's masterpiece. The novel describes the conflict between the land ownership of aristocratic large estates and the small land ownership of the bourgeoisie, and the peasants are in the middle of these two social forces, just like "a bug is caught between a hammer and an anvil." Balzac here describes the poverty situation in the countryside after the bourgeois revolution under the double exploitation of landlords and bourgeoisie, the farmers' strong hatred for the exploiters, and the farmers' dependence on loan sharks determined by their economic status at the time. "A Woman of Thirty" is an important work in Balzac's "Human Comedy". This book is actually a combination of six short stories published at different times. When included in "The Human Comedy", the author unified the names of the protagonists of the six stories and changed the overall title to "A Thirty-Year-Old Woman". In this book, for the first time, the author connects private customs with the era of characters' lives. The conflicts in private life and the conflicts in social life are integrated and complementary to each other. Love life, family life and public life are interdependent and harmonious with each other. In addition, this book also includes "The False Mistress". "Lily of the Valley" is one of Balzac's outstanding novels and a shining pearl in the treasure house of French literature. The novel describes the young aristocrat Felix's pursuit of Countess Morserve. This is a sad and touching love song. In the story that happened in the castle, we can see the changing times. The influence of the Hundred Days Coup, the changes in the palace, the exile life of the old nobles, the fortune of the young nobles in Paris, etc., Are all deeply marked by the times. "Colonel Chabe" is an anthology of Balzac's short stories and short stories, including "The Cat Ball Shop", "Gobusek", "Double Family", "Colonel Chabe", "The Abandoned Woman", "The Atheist at Mass" and "The Privacy of the Princesse de Cardignan".

"Petro Goriot" is the foundation work of Balzac's masterpiece "The Comedy Humane". Paris, 1819, the Napoleonic era has just ended. Behind the prosperity of the upper class, ladies are worried about lovers and debts, nobles are weighing wealth and love, and wealthy businessmen are planning speculation and business. In a low-income apartment in the lower society, various characters are inextricably linked to the upper class: the upstart old man Goriot was drained by his two daughters and died in a shabby corner; the mainland young man Rastignac was determined to rise to prominence and urgently needed to learn many rules of the upper class; the gang leader Vautrin was dormant in the dark, waiting for an opportunity to declare war on the secular society... The human relationships and world affairs of the society during the transition period were played out in turns in this human comedy.

It mainly describes all kinds of living beings in the money society, and writes stories about various people's encounters with money in this era. Honorina is a person who intentionally stays away from the money society, and her escape is also a story of encounter. When Balzac wrote Honorine, Balzac was really more emotional than at any other time, maybe because Honorine is so rare. However, noble beauty is born with dirty beauty, and it is a pity that it is impossible to escape even if you have wings.

"Eugénie Grandet" is one of the representative works in "The Human Comedy". It uses realistic writing to describe the criminal methods of the bourgeois upstarts: Grandet controls the market, drives up prices, engages in public debt speculation, and usury; Charlie traffics in humans, tax evasion and smuggling, etc. At the same time, it also vividly depicts Grandet's love for money as much as his life: his wife was critically ill, but he was reluctant to call a doctor; after his wife died, he forced his daughter Eugenie to give up the right to inherit her mother's inheritance; he watched his brother go bankrupt and committed suicide without helping him; he forced his nephew away, creating Eugenie's love tragedy. The work takes the miser Grandet's family life and exploitative activities as the main line, and Eugenie's love and marriage tragedy as the central event. It analyzes Grandet's sinful fortune and his dehumanizing money worship layer by layer. It successfully portrays the immortal image of the miser in the history of world literature and profoundly exposes the greedy nature of the bourgeoisie and the ruthless money relationship between people in capitalist society.