Rise And Fall Of Cesar Birotteau

Author : Honorae De Balzac
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ISBN 13 : 9781331573487
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (734 download)

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Download or read book The Rise and Fall of Ce ́sar Birotteau written by Honorae De Balzac and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-17 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Rise and Fall of Ce sar Birotteau: Grandeur Et De cadence De Ce sar Birotteau Few books Balzac's have been the subject of more diverse judgment than "Cesar Birotteau." From the opinion of the unnamed solicitor, who told Madame Serville that it was an invaluable work to consult on bankruptcy, to that of M. Paul Lacroix (beloved of many as the Bibliophile Jacob), that it might be forgiven for the sake of "Le Pere Goriot" and the "Peau de Chagrin," there is not perhaps quite so great a distance as may appear; but other expressions, opposed not merely in form, but in fact, might probably be collected. As for the unfavorable division of these opinions there is no difficulty in discovering their causes; and there should be little, save in the case of blind partisans, in acknowledging their partial validity. Although the book opens with one of Balzac's most brilliant pieces of actual human observation - the description of the vague and half-delirious terror of waking from a bad dream - and though the subsequent conversation between Cesar and Constance has the merit of no vulgar curtain-lecture, it soon goes off into one of those endless retrospective narrations which are among the greatest blots on the Comedie, which utterly stop the action, and which, in the case of very many readers who are not gifted with the faculty of what may be called literary mountaineering, are very likely to cause the putting down of the book. To this initial difficulty has to be added the choking of the latter part with those bankruptcy details which did so charm the professional mind of Laure Balzac's learned friend, and which, for unprofessional minds, have something which is very much the reverse of charm. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."