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Publicado en 1839 como apéndice de la Fisiología del gusto del ilustre gastrónomo Brillat-Savarin, este "Tratado de los excitantes modernos" es un delicioso ensayo sobre el alcohol, el azúcar, el té, el café y el tabaco. El gran escritor francés Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) dirige su aguda e irónica mirada a estas cinco sustancias para incidir en su estudio analítico de la sociedad del XIX y mostrarse, en palabras del autor de esta nueva traducción, Julio Baquero Cruz, como el héroe de la modernidad que era y nunca dejará de ser.

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Handsome would-be poet Lucien Chardon is poor and naïve, but highly ambitious. Failing to make his name in his dull provincial hometown, he is taken up by a patroness, the captivating married woman Madame de Bargeton, and prepares to forge his way in the glamorous beau monde of Paris. But Lucien has entered a world far more dangerous than he realized, as Madame de Bargeton's reputation becomes compromised and the fickle, venomous denizens of the courts and salons conspire to keep him out of their ranks. Lucien eventually learns that, wherever he goes, talent counts for nothing in comparison to money, intrigue and unscrupulousness. Lost Illusions is one of the greatest novels in the rich procession of the Comédie humaine, Balzac's panoramic social and moral history of his times.

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Encuadernación: Rústica con solapasColección: Historia y presente,4Han tenido que pasar casi dos siglos para que podamos leer en castellano esta obra del todo actual. Ahora que la prensa habla de la muerte de la prensa ?tal como la conocemos? pocos libros son más oportunos en su salida a la calle que este de Balzac, uno de esos tan famosos del que muchos hablan sin haberlo leído.Con la Monografía de la prensa parisina , Balzac nos ofrece un retrato de la época en el que refleja las pasiones, la mediocridad, los intereses de una profesión que ya entonces había definido su estructura y sus características. Por eso esta obra resulta hoy tan actual, es más, su actualidad es realmente sorprendente. La Monografía es, pues, un retrato agridulce de la profesión periodística del momento, en el que la audacia y la perspicacia de su pluma nos permiten esbozar una sonrisa mientras nos acercamos al corazón del periodismo francés entonces imperante para conocer a los hombres de la Prensa

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PUBLICADA,por primera vez, en 1831,Le Chef-d?oeuvre inconnu, novela corta y enigmática, se ha convertido en un punto de referencia legendario para la cultura artística de nuestra época. Su protagonista principal, el pintor Frenhofer, que fracasa víctima paradójica de su propia genialidad, ha sugestionado por igual a toda suerte de creadores contemporáneos, a escritores, artistas, músicos y cineastas. Dore Ashton, en su célebre ensayo A Fable of Modern Art, ya se encargó de estudiar las huellas que dejó el lunático personaje de la novela de Balzac en cuatro de los más grandes y significativos crea dores de nuestro mundo, como son Cézanne, Rilke, Picasso y Schönberg.

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'This brilliant but devastatingly sad novel moved me so much, I began it again the moment I got to the end' Rose Tremain Monsieur Grandet is a very rich man whose chief care is his gold. He runs his household with exacting miserly attention and his wife and daughter suffer a Spartan existence. On the evening of his daughter Eugénie's twenty third birthday his foppish nephew Charles suddenly arrives from Paris. Eugénie has never known passion. Now, in an instant, she falls in love and her life is changed forever. Monsieur Grandet will not countenance his daughter's marriage to her penniless cousin and Eugénie's determination to follow her heart leads her into direct conflict with her father.

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His elegantly-crafted tale of sibling rivalry, Honoré de Balzac's The Black Sheep is translated from the French with an introduction by Donald Adamson in Penguin Classics.Philippe and Joseph Bridau are two extremely different brothers. The elder, Philippe, is a superficially heroic soldier and adored by their mother Agathe. He is nonetheless a bitter figure, secretly gambling away her savings after a brief but glorious career as Napoleon's aide-de-camp at the battle of Montereau. His younger brother Joseph, meanwhile, is fundamentally virtuous - but their mother is blinded to his kindness by her disapproval of his life as an artist. Foolish and prejudiced, Agathe lives on unaware that she is being cynically manipulated by her own favourite child - but will she ever discover which of her sons is truly the black sheep of the family? A dazzling depiction of the power of money and the cruelty of life in nineteenth-century France, The Black Sheep compellingly explores is a compelling exploration of the nature of deceit.Donald Adamson's translation captures the radical modernity of Balzac's style, while his introduction places The Black Sheep in its context as one of the great novels of Balzac's renowned Comédie humaine.Honoré De Balzac (1799-1850) failed at being a lawyer, publisher, printer, businessman, critic and politician before, at the age of thirty, turning his hand to writing. His life's work, La Comédie humaine, is a series of ninety novels and short stories which offer a magnificent panorama of nineteenth-century life after the French Revolution. Balzac was an influence on innumerable writers who followed him, including Marcel Proust, Émile Zola, Charles Dickens, and Edgar Allan Poe.If you enjoyed The Black Sheep, you might like Balzac's Eugénie Grandet, also available in Penguin Classics.

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Handsome would-be poet Lucien Chardon is poor and naive, but highly ambitious. Failing to make his name in his dull provincial hometown, he is taken up by a patroness, the captivating married woman Madame de Bargeton, and prepares to forge his way in the glamorous beau monde of Paris. But Lucien has entered a world far more dangerous than he realized, as Madame de Bargeton's reputation becomes compromised and the fickle, venomous denizens of the courts and salons conspire to keep him out of their ranks. Lucien eventually learns that, wherever he goes, talent counts for nothing in comparison to money, intrigue and unscrupulousness. Lost Illusions is one of the greatest novels in the rich procession of the Comedie humaine, Balzac's panoramic social and moral history of his times.

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