Honore de Balzac
Lost Illusions Paperback Book
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A new annotated translation of the keystone of Balzacs Comdie Humainea sweeping narrative of corrupted idealism in a cynical urban milieuLost Illusions is an essential text within Balzacs Comdie Humaine, his sprawling, interconnected fictional portrait of French society in the 1820s and 1830s comprising nearly one hundred novels and short stories. This novel, published in three parts between 1837 and 1843, tells the story of Lucien de Rubempr, a talented young poet who leaves behind a scandalous provincial life for the shallow, corrupt, and cynical vortex of modernity that was nineteenthcentury Pariswhere his artistic idealism slowly dissipates until he eventually decides to return home.Balzac poured many of his thematic preoccupations and narrative elaborations into Lost Illusions, from the contrast between life in the provinces and the allconsuming world of Paris to the idealism of poets, the commodification of art, the crushing burden of poverty and debt, and the triumphant cynicism of hack journalists and social climbers. The novel teems with characters, incidents, and settings, though perhaps none so vivid as its panoramic and despairing view of Paris as the nexus of modernitys cultural, social, and moral infection. For Balzac, no institution better illustrates the new reality than Parisian journalism amoral, hypocritical, brazen, dishonest, and murderous, he writes.In this new translation, Raymond N. MacKenzie brilliantly captures the tone of Balzacs incomparable...
Binding: Paperback;624 pages; Publisher: University of Minnesota Press; Classification: FC; Weight: 918 g; Dimensions: 153 x 229 x 43
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A new annotated translation of the keystone of Balzacs Comdie Humainea sweeping narrative of corrupted idealism in a cynical urban milieuLost Illusions is an essential text within Balzacs Comdie Humaine, his sprawling, interconnected fictional portrait of French society in the 1820s and 1830s comprising nearly one hundred novels and short stories. This novel, published in three parts between 1837 and 1843, tells the story of Lucien de Rubempr, a talented young poet who leaves behind a scandalous provincial life for the shallow, corrupt, and cynical vortex of modernity that was nineteenthcentury Pariswhere his artistic idealism slowly dissipates until he eventually decides to return home.Balzac poured many of his thematic preoccupations and narrative elaborations into Lost Illusions, from the contrast between life in the provinces and the allconsuming world of Paris to the idealism of poets, the commodification of art, the crushing burden of poverty and debt, and the triumphant cynicism of hack journalists and social climbers. The novel teems with characters, incidents, and settings, though perhaps none so vivid as its panoramic and despairing view of Paris as the nexus of modernitys cultural, social, and moral infection. For Balzac, no institution better illustrates the new reality than Parisian journalism amoral, hypocritical, brazen, dishonest, and murderous, he writes.In this new translation, Raymond N. MacKenzie brilliantly captures the tone of Balzacs incomparable...
Binding: Paperback;624 pages; Publisher: University of Minnesota Press; Classification: FC; Weight: 918 g; Dimensions: 153 x 229 x 43
Something not quite right? You have 21 days from the day you receive it, to send something back. When you purchase Debenhams Deliver+, you will have an extra 14 days on top of our standard 21-day window to initate a return.
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Items of footwear and/or clothing must be unworn and unwashed with the original labels attached. Also, footwear must be tried on indoors. Items of homeware including bedlinen, mattresses, and toppers, and pillows must be unused and in their original unopened packaging. This does not affect your statutory rights.
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Honore de Balzac
Lost Illusions Paperback Book
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