by Honoré de Balzac · EDDL · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782237000503
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«Illusions perdues» is Honoré de Balzac's realist novel, published by EDDL in paperback (605 pages, in French).
Lucien Chardon, a young provincial poet, arrives in Paris seeking fame and fortune and discovers a literary and journalistic world marked by corruption and self-interest. The novel also portrays life in Angoulême and the printing press, and the clash between the protagonist's ideals and the social reality of the nineteenth century.
This work is part of Balzac's La comedia humana series, as position 38, and the 1996 edition offers the complete text.
For readers of French classics and nineteenth-century realism.
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.
