Rereading One of My Favourite Novels
Balzac: Les Illusions perdues / Verlorene Illusionen / Lost Illusions
"It is all made to be devoured: exciting, sensational, powerfully fabulous, often unbearably romantic, although it is almost always about money, sentimental, even sanctimonious, but with an enormous sense of the social, at the same time with adventurous sympathy for the criminal revolt against society and on the whole of a wild grandeur." Thomas Mann
This is the translation of the blurb on the back of the book that made me want to buy it immediately ten years ago. And I can tell you: Thomas Mann doesn't promise too much.
Rereading One of My Favourite Novels
Balzac: Les Illusions perdues / Verlorene Illusionen / Lost Illusions
"It is all made to be devoured: exciting, sensational, powerfully fabulous, often unbearably romantic, although it is almost always about money, sentimental, even sanctimonious, but with an enormous sense of the social, at the same time with adventurous sympathy for the criminal revolt against society and on the whole of a wild grandeur." Thomas Mann
This is the translation of the blurb on the back of the book that made me want to buy it immediately ten years ago. And I can tell you: Thomas Mann doesn't promise too much.