Balzachian it is a adjective that qualifies a thirty-year-old woman. The expression “Balzacian woman” originated after the publication of the novel “The Woman of Thirty Years”, by the French writer Honoré de Balzac.
The expression “Balzacian woman” came to refer to the female universe of the thirty-year-old woman.
The Balzac term entered the Portuguese language dictionary and identifies everything that is relative or belonging to the writer Honoré de Balzac, it is a noun that names the one who admires or is deeply connoisseur of the work of Balzac.
Origin of the expression "Balzacian"
The expression “Balzacian” came to refer to the woman of thirty, after the publication of the novel “The Thirty-Year-Old Woman” by the French writer Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850). In the work, the author synthesizes all the anxieties, dreams and desires of the female soul.
The book was published in the first half of the 19th century, when France was ruled by Napoleon Bonaparte. Balzac was the first writer to describe the drama of the unmarried woman, aware of the reason for her sufferings and rebellious against the institution of marriage. He was the first to portray a novel in which the female character was a woman in her thirties, an age considered mature for the time.
The central theme of the novel is the life of Julia d'Aiglemont, who marries Vitor, an officer in Napoleon's army, who after years of unhappiness, when he turns thirty, finds true love in Carlos' arms Vandenesse.
The work was a reason for scandal due to the social conventions of the time, but at the same time, it managed to conquer the reader's commotion. In the text that gave rise to the expression “Balzacian”, the author values the beauty, experience, thoughts, desires and anxieties of a a woman who claimed the right to be happy and discussed the ills of a failed marriage and finally finds love in the arms of another men.