Small troubles of marital life. Physiology of marriage

Honore de Balzac (1799-1850) wrote about marriage throughout his life, but his two works are dedicated to this topic on purpose. "Physiology of marriage" (1829) is a witty treatise on the sex war. Here all the means are listed, which the husband can resort to so as not to become a cuckold. However, Balzac looks gloomily at the prospects of marriage: sooner or later his wife will change her husband anyway, and he will get in the best “reward” in the form of delicious food or high position. "Small troubles of marital life" (1846) depict a marriage in a different perspective. Here Balzac talks about family everyday life: from tender feelings, the spouses move on to cooling, and only those couples who arranged a four -four marriage are happy. The author himself called this book "hermaphrodite", since the story is carried out first with a male, and then from a female point of view. In addition, this book is experimental: Balzac invites the reader to choose the characteristics of the heroes himself and mentally fill the gaps in the text. Both works are published in the translation with the notes of Vera Milchina, the leading researcher, steps of the RANEPA and IVGI RSUSU. The translation of the "physiology of marriage", first published in 1995, was significantly redesigned for this publication, the translation of "minor troubles" is published for the first time