The Quest of the Absolute by Honoré de Balzac (PDF)

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⭐A peculiar book recounting the full adult life of an eccentric nobleman, his wife, their four children, and the noble families of a small town in Belgium. Balthazar is a chemist, a scientist, an alchemist, and his passions nearly ruin the family. Plenty of wrangling over financial matters mingled with descriptions of life, emotion, passion and the pain of fate and destiny. The book is roughly divided into two halves, with the fate of the wife presenting a turning point, and the emergence of the daughter as the strong central character.Among Balzac’s books, this one is strange, but it also takes a new angle by describing the lives of Belgian noble families, not intrigues in Paris or among town bourgeoisie, and to my mind the only one that centers on an academic.

⭐A Flamand portrait of the ups and downs on a burgeois family whose head turns deranged about chemical research. The title is not about any moral or philosophical absolute but about the “absolute basic element” that will allow him to transform substances like the good old philosophical stone of the alchemists. Most of the book is about the wreckage that this guy puts on his family while ruining his family a couple times, but the other main characters , his wife, daughter, a pure gentle guy in love with his daughter and a cold and calculating notary public who’s also interested in the daughter are quite original, live and real.Exactly like Flamand paintings it is warm, soft, slow but charming.On the down side Balzac, being an outsider to science, shows not to have a clear distinction in his mind between a scientist and a crackpot.

⭐You’ll have to like slow-rated stories… but that one will seduce you! There’s some fantastic in it, with the famous quest of the Philosophal Stone. And also many psychology, with the interaction of all those souls living together in a rich house in Belgium.The first pages of that book are VERY important, explaining WHY Balzac just does not like to enter his novels “in medias res”. Of course he takes his time to explain… So the reticent Balzac reader may understand better the writer. Not bad, eh?

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