Name: Illusions perdues (in French)
SKU: 60184738
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Author: Honoré De Balzac

Type

Physical Book

Author

Honoré De Balzac

Publisher

Createspace

Language

French

Pages

592

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9x15.2x3 cm

Weight

0.78 kg.

ISBN13

9781979727563

Synopsis "Illusions perdues (in French)"

L'action se déroule sous la Restauration. Le roman peint les milieux de l'imprimerie et des cercles littéraires. Il raconte les illusions perdues du jeune Lucien de Rubempré, jeune provincial cultivé, monté à Paris pour devenir écrivain. Mais devant les difficultés, il se lance dans le journalisme et connaît une certaine fortune. Son revirement monarchiste cause sa ruine. De retour à Angoulême, il essaie d'obtenir l'appui de son ami imprimeur, David. Mais ce dernier, à qui des concurrents avaient volé son invention, est emprisonné, en partie à cause de Lucien. Rubempré veut se suicider, mais il en est empêché par un certain Herrera, prêtre, qui en échange de sa servilité totale, lui donne l'argent pour délivrer son ami.

Honoré De Balzac

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Honoré de Balzac (1799-1851), novelist, playwright, literary and art critic, essayist, journalist, and French printer, is considered one of the great writers of realism. Born in Tours, in 1814 he moved to Paris, where he studied law and began working in a law firm, but his love for literature drove him to abandon his career and dedicate himself to writing. He undertook several businesses, which ended in failure and left him in debt. With The Last Chouan (1829), he achieved great success. From then on, he began a feverish activity, writing, among others, The Physiology of Marriage (1829) and The Wild Ass's Skin (1831), with which he began to consolidate his prestige. In 1834, Balzac, a tireless worker, conceived the idea of making an exhaustive portrait of French society of his time by having the same characters appear in different stories, which began to give his work a unitary sense under the title of The Human Comedy, to which belong titles such as Eugénie Grandet (1833), Father Goriot (1835), Splendors and Miseries of Courtesans (1838-1847) or Cousin Bette (1846), although of the 137 novels that were to make it up, fifty remained incomplete. An extraordinary writer, capable of deploying in his works sublime reflections and ideas, creating an interesting story with strong social criticism through exquisite prose of great poetic level and philosophical depth, Balzac is considered the founder of the modern novel.

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