Petty Troubles of Married Life, Complete
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Per essere felici nella vita di coppia bisogna essere un uomo di genio sposato con una donna tenera e intelligente, oppure ritrovarsi, per effetto di una coincidenza che non è tanto comune quanto si potrebbe pensare, tutti e due particolarmente stupidi. L’ironia punzecchiante di sentenze come questa pervade l’intera scrittura delle Piccole miserie della vita coniugale (1847). Quest’opera curiosa e inattesa – apparsa prima su «Le Diable à Paris», poi su «La Caricature» e «La Presse» – riprende le tematiche che erano già state sollevate nella Fisiologia del matrimonio (1829). Con queste pagine f...
Chapters (44)
- PETTY TROUBLES OF MARRIED LIFE
- PART FIRST
- PREFACE
- PETTY TROUBLES OF MARRIED LIFE
- THE UNKINDEST CUT OF ALL.
- REVELATIONS.
- AXIOMS.
- THE ATTENTIONS OF A WIFE.
- SMALL VEXATIONS.
- THE ULTIMATUM.
- WOMEN’S LOGIC.
- THE JESUITISM OF WOMEN.
- MEMORIES AND REGRETS.
- OBSERVATIONS.
- THE MATRIMONIAL GADFLY.
- HARD LABOR.
- FORCED SMILES.
- NOSOGRAPHY OF THE VILLA.
- TROUBLE WITHIN TROUBLE.
- Axiom.—There are parentheses in worry.
- A HOUSEHOLD REVOLUTION.
- THE ART OF BEING A VICTIM.
- THE FRENCH CAMPAIGN.
- A SOLO ON THE HEARSE.
- PART SECOND
- PREFACE
- HUSBANDS DURING THE SECOND MONTH.
- DISAPPOINTED AMBITION.
- THE PANGS OF INNOCENCE.
- THE UNIVERSAL AMADIS.
- WITHOUT AN OCCUPATION.
- INDISCRETIONS.
- BRUTAL DISCLOSURES.
- A TRUCE.
- USELESS CARE.
- SMOKE WITHOUT FIRE.
- THE DOMESTIC TYRANT.
- THE AVOWAL.
- HUMILIATIONS.
- THE LAST QUARREL.
- A SIGNAL FAILURE.
- THE CHESTNUTS IN THE FIRE.
- ULTIMA RATIO.
- COMMENTARY. IN WHICH IS EXPLAINED LA FELICITA OF FINALES.
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