| Author: | Honoré de Balzac | ISBN: | 1230002504728 |
| Publisher: | Guy Deloeuvre | Publication: | April 7, 2019 |
| Imprint: | Language: | English |
| Author: | Honoré de Balzac |
| ISBN: | 1230002504728 |
| Publisher: | Guy Deloeuvre |
| Publication: | April 7, 2019 |
| Imprint: | |
| Language: | English |
After Father Goriot and Lost Illusions, Splendours et misères des courtisanes completes "Vautrin's trilogy". This hero of the lowlands, a forger and murderer, is also a sublime lover and a poet in his own way, who devotes his Titanic strengths and infernal imagination to the fortune of the man he adores: Lucien de Rubempré. Balzac never cruelly took off again
his masks to a society whose secrets he penetrates compromises. From the underworld and prostitution circles to those of the police and the judiciary, to the highest levels of the State, he makes a merciless diagnosis of widespread gangrene, leading his captivated reader to discover the adventures of desire in the jungle of Paris, with superb energy.
After Father Goriot and Lost Illusions, Splendours et misères des courtisanes completes "Vautrin's trilogy". This hero of the lowlands, a forger and murderer, is also a sublime lover and a poet in his own way, who devotes his Titanic strengths and infernal imagination to the fortune of the man he adores: Lucien de Rubempré. Balzac never cruelly took off again
his masks to a society whose secrets he penetrates compromises. From the underworld and prostitution circles to those of the police and the judiciary, to the highest levels of the State, he makes a merciless diagnosis of widespread gangrene, leading his captivated reader to discover the adventures of desire in the jungle of Paris, with superb energy.
