Le Lys dans la vallée
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Le Lys dans la vallée is a 1835 novel by Honoré de Balzac that portrays an intense, unfulfilled love affair set against the backdrop of French provincial society, and is considered one of his major works in La Comédie humaine.
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
literary work
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novel → |
| author |
Honoré de Balzac
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| belongsTo |
19th-century French novels
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| containsMotif |
conflict between duty and passion
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idealized woman → |
| countryOfOrigin |
France
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| cycle |
Scènes de la vie de campagne
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| firstPublicationMedium |
Revue de Paris
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| focusesOn |
constraints of marriage and society
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moral conflict of the protagonist → |
| genre |
French literature
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psychological novel → romantic novel → |
| hasAdaptation |
film adaptations
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television adaptations → |
| hasInfluenceOn |
later French psychological novels
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| hasLiterarySignificance |
considered one of Balzac’s major works
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| isPartOfSeries |
La Comédie humaine
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| literaryMovement |
Realism
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| literaryStyle |
detailed description of landscape
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introspective analysis of feelings → |
| locationOfFictionalSetting |
Touraine
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Vallée de l’Indre → |
| mainTheme |
adultery
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sacrifice → social conventions → spiritual love → unfulfilled love → |
| majorCharacter |
Comte de Mortsauf
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Félix de Vandenesse → Henriette de Mortsauf → Natalie de Manerville → |
| narrativeForm |
first-person narrative
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| narrativePerspective |
retrospective account
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| originalLanguage |
French
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| partOf |
La Comédie humaine
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| placeInAuthorCorpus |
central work in Balzac’s rural novels
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| publicationYear |
1835
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| publisher |
originally serialized in a periodical press
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| setting |
French provincial society
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| structure |
divided into several parts
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| timePeriodOfFictionalSetting |
Restoration France
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| titleTranslation |
The Lily of the Valley
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Referenced by (3)
| Subject (surface form when different) | Predicate |
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La Comédie humaine
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Scènes de la vie de province → |
hasPart |
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Honoré de Balzac
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notableWork |