The Commission in Lunacy

About this film

LibriVox recording of The Commission in Lunacy by Honoré de Balzac. (Translated by Clara Bell.) Read in English by Bruce Pirie. “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 For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit librivox.org . M4B Audiobook (107MB)

Directors & creators

Honoré de Balzac

Subjects

librivox; audiobooks;morality; greed; materialism; justice; Conscience; realism; 19th century france; 19th century paris

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