About This Novel
"Disillusionment" is one of Balzac's masterpieces and is included in "Human Comedy·Provincial Scenes". The novel is set in Paris during the Restoration Dynasty, and creates two images of young people from the provinces - Lucien, an ambitious and vain young poet, who tried to enter the upper class of Paris with his intelligence and talent, but was ruined and returned to his hometown in despair; The novel shows a broad picture from the provinces to Paris after the French Revolution, depicts various phenomena with characteristic significance during the Restoration period, and reflects in the cruel and complex real society how the talents of young people were destroyed, how their fantasies were destroyed, and how the temple of literature was used as a place for shameless transactions and became filthy. Balzac himself called "Disillusionment" "the first work among my works" and "fully expresses our times."
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