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Illusioni perdute vol. 2

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Ad Angoulême, David Séchard, un giovane poeta idealista, assume nella sua tipografia un amico di college, Lucien Chardon, che presto prenderà il nome di sua madre, Rubempré. Poeta anche lui, godette di una sorta di gloria locale e frequentava il salotto di Louise de Bargeton a cui presto legò un intrigo sentimentale che fece tanto parlare che entrambi partirono per Parigi. Lucien si lancia presto nel mondo delle lettere oltre che nell'alta società, ma se Parigi è la città dei "persone superiori", sarà anche per lui una città di delusioni. È proprio la figura di Lucien, infatti, che dà soprattutto la sua unità alle Illusioni perdute che furono prima, dal 1837 al 1843, una serie di tre romanzi che divennero poi le tre parti di quello che stiamo leggendo, quando Balzac concepì il progetto de La Comédie humaine e decise di fare della sua trilogia una delle Scene della vita provinciale. Perché se Parigi resta al centro del trittico, è ad Angoulême, tuttavia, che si annoda il destino degli eroi, ad Angoulême addirittura che si oscura. Tornato nella sua città natale, Lucien non è lontano dall'affondarvi - prima di una vera ascesa che Balzac descriverà in un altro grande libro: Splendeurs et misères des courtesanes.

330 pages, Unknown Binding

Published March 1, 1966

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Honoré de Balzac

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French writer Honoré de Balzac (born Honoré Balzac), a founder of the realist school of fiction, portrayed the panorama of society in a body of works, known collectively as La comédie humaine .

Honoré de Balzac authored 19th-century novels and plays. After the fall of Napoléon in 1815, his magnum opus, a sequence of almost a hundred novels and plays, entitled, presents life in the years.

Due to keen observation of fine detail and unfiltered representation, European literature regards Balzac. He features renowned multifaceted, even complex, morally ambiguous, full lesser characters. Character well imbues inanimate objects; the city of Paris, a backdrop, takes on many qualities. He influenced many famous authors, including the novelists Marcel Proust, Émile Zola, Charles John Huffam Dickens, Gustave Flaubert, Henry James, and Jack Kerouac as well as important philosophers, such as Friedrich Engels. Many works of Balzac, made into films, continue to inspire.

An enthusiastic reader and independent thinker as a child, Balzac adapted with trouble to the teaching style of his grammar. His willful nature caused trouble throughout his life and frustrated his ambitions to succeed in the world of business. Balzac finished, and people then apprenticed him as a legal clerk, but after wearying of banal routine, he turned his back on law. He attempted a publisher, printer, businessman, critic, and politician before and during his career. He failed in these efforts From his own experience, he reflects life difficulties and includes scenes.

Possibly due to his intense schedule and from health problems, Balzac suffered throughout his life. Financial and personal drama often strained his relationship with his family, and he lost more than one friend over critical reviews. In 1850, he married Ewelina Hańska, his longtime paramour; five months later, he passed away.

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