by Honoré de Balzac · 10/18 · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070309894
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«Illusions perdues» is the classic novel by Honoré de Balzac in paperback format (960 pages, in French).
The novel follows two friends: the printer David Séchard and the poet Lucien de Rubempré. David remains in Angoulême while Lucien leaves for Paris seeking glory and enters the world of letters, theatre and journalism. It is a critique of ambition, the press and French society of the era, marked by disillusionment.
The novel is part of the series «La Comédie humaine» by Honoré de Balzac, at position 38. The work was originally published in 1843.
A title for readers of nineteenth-century French literature and admirers of Honoré de Balzac.
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.
