More whack structures in Balzac.

Never seen this one before, in any of his like 10+ novels I've read:

As the marriage breaks up due to the husband's cheating, the book becomes a series of like page-long chapters, giving small moments of passion and confusion as the wronged wife tries to deny what's happening, and then adjust to it.

And, it's just like page-long chapters, forever.

Somehow I think Balzac got bored pounding out all of his novels, and spur-of-the-moment he was like, "Heck, let's just do this," and went with it.

Interestingly, too, he describes all these society wives as graceful and elegant and then the competitor as aging and having to adjust indoor light to hide her wrinkles, and then like twenty pages later he mentions that the wife with a young kid is like twenty-two and the competitor is like thirty.

Erp.