Thirty -year -old woman

... In genre pictures from the life of a Parisian society - "Study of women", "thirty -year -old woman", "marital consent" - he creates a completely new type of incomprehensible woman, which marriage disappoints in all her expectations and dreams, which, as from a secret ailment, melting from the indifference and coldness of her husband ... And since in France, and in the whole world, thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of women feel incomprehensible and disappointed, they gain a doctor in Balzac, who was the first to name their ailment . He excuses any of their wrong step, unless this step is taken out of love, he decides to say that not only a “thirty -year -old woman ", but also a“ forty -year -old woman ”, and even she, who has known and everything that befell, has the highest right to love . Stefan Zweig