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

Type

Physical Book

Author

Honoré De Balzac

Publisher

Culturea

Language

French

Pages

484

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21x14.8x2.7 cm

Weight

0.63 kg.

ISBN13

9782385081584

Synopsis "Illusions perdues (in French)"

Ce roman est, comme le dit son titre, celui de la perte des illusions, de la défaite des idéaux dans une société impitoyable. Il présente d'abord les ambitions de deux amis: Lucien Chardon et David Séchard. David, imprimeur à Angoulême, cherche le moyen de produire un papier bon marché. Lucien, poète, rêve de grandeur; c'est pourquoi il quitte Angoulême pour Paris où il espère le succès. On assiste ensuite aux échecs de Lucien dans les milieux littéraires et mondains, et aux déboires financiers de David à Angoulême. A la fin du roman, Lucien, au bord du suicide, rencontre un mystérieux prêtre espagnol qui lui promet une meilleure vie sous sa conduite: elle fera l'objet du roman.

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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