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Original Title:	Illusions perdues
ISBN:	1406506583 (ISBN13: 9781406506587)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	La Comédie Humaine #38, Études de mœurs : Scènes de la vie de province
Characters:	Eugène de Rastignac, Vautrin, Henri de Marsay, Horace Bianchon, Lucien Chardon de Rubempré, David Séchard, Ève Séchard, Marie Louise Anaïs de Bargeton, Daniel d'Arthez, Armand de Montriveau, Michel Chrestien, Coralie, Raoul Nathan, Étienne Lousteau, Melchior de Canalis, Émile Blondet, Andoche Finot, Félix de Vandenesse, Felicité des Touches, Camusot, Joseph Bridau, Florine (Sophie Grignault), Diane de Maufrigneuse

Lost Illusions (La Comédie Humaine #38) Paperback | Pages: 656 pages

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Handsome would-be poet Lucien Chardon is poor and naive, but highly ambitious. Failing to make his name in his dull provincial hometown, he is taken up by a patroness, the captivating married woman Madame de Bargeton, and prepares to forge his way in the glamorous beau monde of Paris. But Lucien has entered a world far more dangerous than he realized, as Madame de Bargeton's reputation becomes compromised and the fickle, venomous denizens of the courts and salons conspire to keep him out of their ranks. Lucien eventually learns that, wherever he goes, talent counts for nothing in comparison to money, intrigue and unscrupulousness. Lost Illusions is one of the greatest novels in the rich procession of the Comedie humaine, Balzac's panoramic social and moral history of his times.

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Title	:	Lost Illusions (La Comédie Humaine #38)
Author	:	Honoré de Balzac
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 656 pages
Published	:	May 1st 2006 by Dodo Press (first published 1837)
Categories	:	Classics. Fiction. Cultural. France. European Literature. French Literature. Literature

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Honore de Balzac wasn't finished writing yet when he died on 18 August 1850. Yet at the time of his death he had already written a good number of journal articles and some 90 novels. The literary characters he had created are estimated to be between 2,000 to 3,000. Was he sick? Did he have some sort of a mania for writing on and on? No. The secret of his prolificness, I guess, was in his favorite drink. It was said that at one time he wrote for 18 straight hours, without sleep, subsisting only

Lost Illusions tells the story of a good looking young man who lusts after fame in Paris and as a result brings his supportive good-natured provincial family to bankruptcy. It's a rather long-winded novel. In common with many 19th century novelists Balzac does like to give elaborate descriptions of everything he sees. Thus every room is presented to us in meticulous detail - wonderful if you want to research interior design in 19th century France; on the tedious side otherwise; every character's

This isn't so much a Bildungsroman as it is an exploration of a young man's failure to mature. Balzac and Dickens are two sides of a coin - Dickens is 'the English Balzac' and Balzac 'the French Dickens'. Of Dickens I've only read The Pickwick Papers, a gentle comedy, and Hard Times, one of his minor works, so I can't be sure whose side to declaim, but Balzac certainly seems more hard-hearted. Since I'm not fluent in French, I presume his characters' names are less silly, at least.This has the

Balzac's Lost Illusions is a massive literary undertaking, and an attempt to delve deep into the world of humanity with all its great deeds and basest desires. Yet, taking the entire volume of Balzac's Human Comedy into perspective, Lost Illusions is nothing but a small piece of the enormous mosaic this author created in the short span of a decade. Like with all his works I read to date, Lost Illusions offers its readers spectacular writing, well developed characters, just enough but not too

This is a trilogy, consisting of:Two PoetsA Distinguished Provincial at Paris andEve and DavidOriginally published separately in 1837, 1839, and 1843, they are now usually combined in one volume under the title of Lost Illusions. However, if you find them separately, be sure to read them in that order.This starts very slowly. Had I not read other Balzac, I might not have continued past the first 40-50 pages. Soon, however, the story begins to reveal itself, and I could not help myself. There are

As much as I enjoyed Pere Goriot, Lost Illusions is the kind of a literary work that lets you peer into the soul of a great mind and dwell there. Just as Lucien was Balzac, the lost poet, David Sechard, the printer, is also Balzac the craftsman in real life: he bought a print shop in Paris to print his own novels. Sechard is much like the scientist in the Quest of the Absolute, except that David ultimately finds himself through his invention and the inventor in The Quest becomes lost to his own

"No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman." When I left the farm at the age of 18 and jerry rigged my battered Camaro into a sputtering, but functional machine that could, by the grace of all that is holy, get me to Phoenix. I might have bore resemblance to Lucien de Rubempre the hero of Lost Illusions. Well, okay, there were some differences. I did not look like a Greek God. I did not have David Sechard as a best friend who lent me his last 1,000 francs