Name: Cesar Birotteau (in French)
SKU: 61426337
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Author: Honoré De Balzac
ISBN: 9781542778282

Type

Physical Book

Author

Honoré De Balzac

Illustrated by

Gustavo J. Sanchez

Publisher

Createspace

Language

French

Pages

240

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9x15.2x1.3 cm

Weight

0.33 kg.

ISBN13

9781542778282

Synopsis "Cesar Birotteau (in French)"

César Birotteau est un roman d'Honoré de Balzac, écrit en 1837. Il fait partie des Scènes de la vie parisienne de La Comédie humaine. Le titre de l'oeuvre est en réalité Histoire de la Grandeur et de la Décadence de César Birotteau, parfumeur, chevalier de la Légion d'honneur, adjoint au maire du deuxième arrondissement de Paris (phrase qui résume à elle seule toute la trame du roman), d'où son autre titre courant Grandeur et décadence de César Birotteau. Comme souvent dans les romans de Balzac, le sujet a été emprunté à un fait réel, l'auteur ayant pris pour modèle un certain Bully, parfumeur de son état, qui inventa une lotion de toilette vinaigrée à laquelle il donna son nom. L'officine de Bully fut mise à sac lors du soulèvement populaire de 1830 et l'homme fut ruiné. Il passa de longues années à rembourser ses créanciers et mourut dans le plus grand dénuement à l'hôpital.

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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