Ferdinando Camon Poradie kníh (chronologicky)

A Parisian doctor, disillusioned and weary of his dissipated lifestyle, moves to a village in Savoy where, with commitment and dedication, he works to improve the life of the community, which rewards him by electing him mayor. The reconstruction of the small universe of the village, the description of its interiors and peasant customs, and the long conversations of the doctor-mayor offer intense and effective pages from which a great variety of portraits, detailed profiles, and simple sketches come to life.

Poor, plain spinster Bette is compelled to survive on the condescending patronage of her socially superior relatives in Paris: her beautiful, saintly cousin Adeline, the philandering Baron Hulot and their daughter Hortense. Already deeply resentful of their wealth, when Bette learns that the man she is in love with plans to marry Hortense, she becomes consumed by the desire to exact her revenge and dedicates herself to the destruction of the Hulot family, plotting their ruin with patient, silent malice. Cousin Bette is a gripping tale of violent jealousy, sexual passion and treachery, and a brilliant portrayal of the grasping, bourgeois society of 1840s Paris. The culmination of the Comédie humaine, Balzac's epic chronicle of his times, it is one of his greatest triumphs as a novelist.

Story which centers on the plight of a young couple who were unable to have children for a period of 6 years. When the wife finally conceives their obsession with having the "perfect" baby results in creating a hopeless situation for the couple.

Der Roman ist der ideale Abschluss dessen, was Camon den «Zyklus der Letzten» genannt hat, in dem eine seit jeher stagnierende Bauernwelt in ihrer Misere und Größe wieder auflebt. Aus dieser irdischen Matrix gelangt der Autor nun, durch Verklärung der Liebe, Vermittlung der Erinnerung und durch die Kraft der Poesie, zu einem Gefühl der Unsterblichkeit, das sein Symbol und Zeichen im aus Kupfer errichteten Altar für die Mutter findet. Es ist der Vater, der ihn errichtet, aber es ist der Sohn, der seine Geburt festhält, indem er seinerseits einen «Altar der Worte» schafft, das Buch, das der Mutter ermöglichen wird, «aufzuhören zu sterben». Eine süßeste Liebeserklärung, ist dies ein Roman, der auf verschiedenen Ebenen gelesen und gefühlt werden kann, der aber vor allem mit einer intensiven Religiosität tolstoianischen Typs berührt. Eine kompakte und spannungsgeladene, epische und elegische Schreibweise verleiht dem Buch die strenge Einheit der Werke, die bleiben.

Ostensibly a satirical look at psychoanalysis and its practitioners, this novel is also a serious social critique of modern man. Camon's narrator consults a series of therapists, searching for the source of his mysterious maladies. Camon draws parallels between his narrator's experiences and the experiences of Man in a morally disintegrating Italy. From his depcitions of pompous therapists to his analysis of the intersection of church and state, Camon's wit and wisdom shine.