Invisible, not called vicissitudes - Balzac's "Double Family"

There are some people, not very old, whose hearts are dead. Others, with their pure eyes open, could see everything.

Invisible, not called vicissitudes.

Balzac's "Double Family", about a young clerk, falls in love with a poor and beautiful woman. That woman, unlike the other women. A gust of wind blew, and she did not cover her long skirt with her hands, and walked frankly. They fell in love with each other, the young clerk, who was later promoted to manager. The woman betrayed him and fell resolutely in love with someone else.

Later, he married a woman from a good family. His wife, beautiful in appearance, very cultured and knowledgeable. They never quarreled, their son, and became accountants, lawyers, and prosecutors. He didn't love the sons of the family, he didn't care about them. He helped the child of the woman who had left him. Although the child was a burglar and an alcoholic.

His mother was in love with a criminal, his mother had been ill for a long time, her hair had fallen out, and poverty had made it impossible for her to buy clothes. The woman of this family never loved him again, but waited wholeheartedly for her criminal lover. Former clerk, now manager. Looking out the window in a daze, missing them. In fact, all his love has never left in his heart, perhaps because his heart is not dead.

This is not a work of publicity. It's a work that's hard to understand. So the reputation is not very big. Speaking of which, I have to think it's ridiculous again. Publicity is, in many ways, a commercial act.

In any case, the world is fair, no one will endure betrayal, inexplicably stubborn to this point, and so is the hero. There is no love without reason, people who are deceived and hurt others, if there is a happy life that has not been awakened, it is luck. Man's life depends on the mind, not luck.

The two women in "Double Family" harvest different things because of their own conditions. Beauty wealth status has nothing to do with emotion. True affection comes from the worship, mutual communication and mutual support of the heart. But understanding all this is not necessarily a painful thing. We have the cloak of the world, if your mind is not dead yet.

So I can probably know why "Double Family" didn't have a big reputation... Victory and defeat, happiness and pain, other than things, are the most rare.