The Commission in Lunacy


Leído por Bruce Pirie

(5 stars; 4 reviews)

“The Commission in Lunacy” is a short novel first published in 1836 with the French title “L’interdiction” (i.e., “The Ban” or “The Prohibition”). An aristocratic woman wants the courts to declare her estranged husband mentally incompetent to manage his own affairs. To achieve this, the petition must pass through the hands of an examining judge — a man of old-fashioned integrity and conscience. In this story of Parisian society, we see Balzac developing techniques of rich character portrayal and psychological realism. - Summary by Bruce Pirie (3 hr 35 min)

Capítulos

Section 1 49:22 Leído por Bruce Pirie
Section 2 38:05 Leído por Bruce Pirie
Section 3 55:16 Leído por Bruce Pirie
Section 4 33:20 Leído por Bruce Pirie
Section 5 39:49 Leído por Bruce Pirie

Reseñas

it's raycyst


(5 stars)

Balzac, an old white male, depicts a world of endemic white heteronormativity. This is RAYCYST. He also uses language that nonbinary BIPOCs are just not able to understand. This is because BIPOCs are constantly being raped and whipped by old white males and are thus deprived of literacy. In order to make this excellent story palatable for a modern inclusive audience, Balzac needs to be reconstructed as a nonbinary gay author who was forced into a cis shell through endemic heteronormative oppression. Also all the words in these stories must be replaced by urban expressive dance routines. In summary words are raycyst. Anything old is raycyst.

I felt like crying


(5 stars)

Bruce Pirie is excellent as the reader. It is hard to put into words how this book affected me. Great translation. It will make me think much.

A tale of righting wrongs whilst others continue to try and hurt others


(5 stars)

Makes one ponder character and integrity.