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Las Ilusiones Perdidas / Lost Illusions
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ISBN10: 958892555X
ISBN13: 9789588925554
Publisher: Penguin Clasicos
Published: Nov 17 2026
Pages: 786
Language: Spanish
ISBN13: 9789588925554
Publisher: Penguin Clasicos
Published: Nov 17 2026
Pages: 786
Language: Spanish
Obra maestra de Balzac, Las ilusiones perdidas cuenta la historia de un joven de provincias con ambiciones artÃsticas que sueña con triunfar en ParÃs. La odisea de Lucien de Rubempré desde la inocencia de su Angulema natal hasta el fango del fracaso constituye uno de los periplos narrativos más audaces, embelesadores e imponentes de la narrativa del siglo XIX. Crónica de toda una época, elegÃa y recuerdo de los perdidos sueños de juventud, esta novela, apoteosis y a la vez sÃntesis de La Comedia Humana, ha consolidado con el tiempo el vigor de su intimidante grandeza. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Lost Illusions is an essential text within Balzac's Comédie Humaine, his sprawling, interconnected fictional portrait of French society in the 1820s and 1830s comprising nearly one hundred novels and short stories.
Balzac's masterpiece, Lost Illusions tells the story of a young man from the provinces with artistic ambitions who dreams of succeeding in Paris. This novel, published in three parts between 1837 and 1843, tells the story of Lucien de Rubempré, a talented young poet who leaves behind a scandalous provincial life for the shallow, corrupt, and cynical vortex of modernity that was nineteenth-century Paris--where his artistic idealism slowly dissipates until he eventually decides to return home. Balzac poured many of his thematic preoccupations and narrative elaborations into Lost Illusions, from the contrast between life in the provinces and the all-consuming world of Paris to the idealism of poets, the commodification of art, the crushing burden of poverty and debt, and the triumphant cynicism of hack journalists and social climbers. The novel teems with characters, incidents, and settings, though perhaps none so vivid as its panoramic and despairing view of Paris as the nexus of modernity's cultural, social, and moral infection. For Balzac, no institution better illustrates the new reality than Parisian journalism: amoral, hypocritical, brazen, dishonest, and murderous, he writes.
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