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Balzac turns to the French civil service in this novel, set among the clerks of a Paris ministry. Its centre is Rabourdin, a forty-year-old head of a bureau: honest, neat, long past his youthful hopes, and harassed by troubles at home and at work. Chapter titles about the ship-worm and the mollusks hint at a satirical view of the office, and another chapter sketches portraits of government men. Katharine Prescott Wormeley made the English translation. In French the novel is Les Employés, part of the Human Comedy.
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Book facts
- Author
- Honoré de Balzac
- Reading time
- About 6 hours
- Pages
- 155
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Satire
- Formats
- PDF, EPUB, Read online