by Honoré de Balzac · Brooking International · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782877141727
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«Illusions perdues» is the novel by Honoré de Balzac, published by Brooking International in paperback (571 pages, in French).
France, 19th century. Lucien de Rubempré, a young poet from Angoulême, moves to Paris after a romantic relationship with the aristocrat Louise de Bargeton that causes local scandal. In the capital, Lucien moves between the literary world and high society, where his ideals clash with a reality full of interests and false appearances, on the road to disillusionment.
It is part of La Comedia humana, a series in which it occupies position 38, and was originally published in three parts between 1837 and 1843.
Novel in French, for readers who prefer Balzac in his original language or students who want to practice French with a 19th-century classic.
Honoré de Balzac was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie humaine, described as a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his magnum opus.
