Name: El elixir de la larga vida (in Spanish)
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Author: Honoré De Balzac
ISBN: 9781494290344

portada El elixir de la larga vida (in Spanish)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Honoré De Balzac

Illustrated by

Ruben Fresneda

Publisher

Createspace

Language

Spanish

Pages

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9 x 15.2 x 0.4 cm

Weight

0.10 kg.

ISBN13

9781494290344

Synopsis "El elixir de la larga vida (in Spanish)"

Al lector1: al comienzo de su carrera literaria recibió el autor; de manos de un amigo muerto hacía tiempo, el tema de esta obra, que más tarde encontró en una antología a principios de este siglo; y, según sus conjeturas, se trata de una fantasía creada por Hoffmann de Berlín, publicada en algún almanaque alemán y olvidada por sus editores. La Comédie Humaine es lo suficientemente original para que el autor pueda confesar una copia inocente; como La Fontaine, ha tratado a su manera, y sin saberlo, un hecho ya contado. Esto no ha sido una broma como estaba de moda en 1830, época en la que todo autor escribía cosas atroces para complacer a las jovencitas.

Honoré De Balzac

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Honoré de Balzac (1799-1851), novelist, playwright, literary and art critic, essayist, journalist, and French printer, is considered one of the great writers of realism. Born in Tours, in 1814 he moved to Paris, where he studied law and began working in a law firm, but his love for literature drove him to abandon his career and dedicate himself to writing. He undertook several businesses, which ended in failure and left him in debt. With The Last Chouan (1829), he achieved great success. From then on, he began a feverish activity, writing, among others, The Physiology of Marriage (1829) and The Wild Ass's Skin (1831), with which he began to consolidate his prestige. In 1834, Balzac, a tireless worker, conceived the idea of making an exhaustive portrait of French society of his time by having the same characters appear in different stories, which began to give his work a unitary sense under the title of The Human Comedy, to which belong titles such as Eugénie Grandet (1833), Father Goriot (1835), Splendors and Miseries of Courtesans (1838-1847) or Cousin Bette (1846), although of the 137 novels that were to make it up, fifty remained incomplete. An extraordinary writer, capable of deploying in his works sublime reflections and ideas, creating an interesting story with strong social criticism through exquisite prose of great poetic level and philosophical depth, Balzac is considered the founder of the modern novel.

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