The Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau
by H
About This Novel
The masterpiece of Balzac, the French literary master, tells the story of a pollen dealer who seems ordinary in all aspects. Because of his ridiculous ambition, he plummeted from the peak of prosperity and became a pauper who lost all his money. However, his "extremely honest" virtue and his efforts to atone for his sins gave his suffering a brilliance of martyrdom. The golden age was the starting point of his misfortune, and when the final victory came, his life also came to an end. In this way, Birotteau, who was not easily interested in readers, finally became one of the important characters that has been tested for a long time and has not become outdated on the stage of "Human Comedy". The work is not only a commercial novel with historical significance, but also a very interesting bourgeois genre painting.
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