Reading Cousin Pons | Alexandria
Read Cousin Pons by Honore de Balzac. Exposing greed's true cost, Balzac's Cousin Pons reveals how obsessive collecting masks deeper hungers for connection. Through a dying bachelor's prized art collection, we confront timeless questions about what we truly value. His radical insight? The objects we accumulate often destroy the relationships we need most - a warning eerily relevant in our consumer age.