Cesar Birotteau (Penguin Classics S.) - Softcover

Balzac, Honoré De; Buss, Robin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140446419 ISBN 13: 9780140446418

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1994

Synopsis

This story is one of Balzac's "Scenes de la Vie Privee" within the "Comedie Humaine" sequence, and describes the irresistible rise and fall of a perfume merchant in the Rue St Honore. This novel is the French 19th-century's great poem of bankruptcy.

About this title

About the Author:

The son of a civil servant, Honoré de Balzac was born in 1799 in Tours, France. After attending boarding school in Vendôme, he gravitated to Paris where he worked as a legal clerk and a hack writer, using various pseudonyms, often in collaboration with other writers. Balzac turned exclusively to fiction at the age of thirty and went on to write a large number of novels and short stories set amid turbulent nineteenth-century France. He entitled his collective works The Human Comedy. Along with Victor Hugo and Dumas père and fils, Balzac was one of the pillars of French romantic literature. He died in 1850, shortly after his marriage to the Polish countess Evelina Hanska, his lover of eighteen years.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0140446419
• ISBN 13: 9780140446418
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320