Grandeza y decadencia de César Birotteau

Por Honore de Balzac

César Birotteau, un hombre con éxito en su negocio de perfumería se deslumbra con su participación en una especulación de terrenos que lo convertirá en un hombre rico; pero los dispendios, el lujo de la nueva vida y el abandono de sus negocios de siempre lo llevan a la quiebra; a partir de ahí el único pensamiento de César es conseguir su rehabilitación pagando rigurosamente todas sus deudas.

A través de él, Balzac convierte en sublime la mediocridad de la vida y confiere a un hombre común la grandeza de los héroes épicos.

• Idioma: Español
• Editorial: Honore de Balzac
• Fecha de lanzamiento: 12 mar 2016
• ISBN: 9788892567771

Honore de Balzac

Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) was a French novelist, short story writer, and playwright. Regarded as one of the key figures of French and European literature, Balzac’s realist approach to writing would influence Charles Dickens, Émile Zola, Henry James, Gustave Flaubert, and Karl Marx. With a precocious attitude and fierce intellect, Balzac struggled first in school and then in business before dedicating himself to the pursuit of writing as both an art and a profession. His distinctly industrious work routine—he spent hours each day writing furiously by hand and made extensive edits during the publication process—led to a prodigious output of dozens of novels, stories, plays, and novellas. La Comédie humaine, Balzac’s most famous work, is a sequence of 91 finished and 46 unfinished stories, novels, and essays with which he attempted to realistically and exhaustively portray every aspect of French society during the early-nineteenth century.