Illusioni perdute

"No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman." When I left the farm at the age of 18 and jerry rigged my battered Camaro into a sputtering, but functional machine that could, by the grace of all that is holy, get me to Phoenix. I might have bore resemblance to L Leggi tutto

Unfortunately for most French people, they were forced to read Balzac in school and were not given the real time or context to fully appreciate his work. Plus they mostly only get the highly moralistic Peau de Chagrin and, fed up, finish their book report and never seek out Balzac again. That is qui Leggi tutto

The premise consisted of a lot I would like. The printing industry for one, an industry I have been working in for the entire 45 years of my working life. And the literary arts, us Goodreads people love that or we would not be here. That issue of the urbane life of the major city over the provincial Leggi tutto

Ο αμετάκλητα χαμένος κόσμος των υπέροχων λογοτεχνικών ψευδαισθήσεων… Τι μπορεί, αλήθεια, να προσφέρει ένας συγγραφέας του 19ου αιώνα στο κοινό τού 21ου, εκτός από αναγνωστική έπαρση, καθότι ο Μπαλζάκ είναι ένας "Κλασικός", "Αναγνωρισμένος", "Μεγάλος", "Απαιτητικός" συγγραφέας και ο καλούμενος "σοβαρό Leggi tutto

Honore de Balzac wasn't finished writing yet when he died on 18 August 1850. Yet at the time of his death he had already written a good number of journal articles and some 90 novels. The literary characters he had created are estimated to be between 2,000 to 3,000. Was he sick? Did he have some sort Leggi tutto

CONTRACT between the recent reader of Honoré de Balzac's Illusions perdues , hereinafter the party of the first part, and His Satanic Majesty Lucifer, Prince of Darkness and Father of Lies, hereinafter the party of the second part: WHEREAS it is amply revealed in the aforementioned work of Balzac that Leggi tutto