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Jun 29, 2024 · Honoré de Balzac (born May 20, 1799, Tours, France—died August 18, 1850, Paris) was a French literary artist who produced a vast number of novels and short stories collectively called La Comédie humaine ( The Human Comedy ). He helped to establish the traditional form of the novel and is generally considered to be one of the greatest ...
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4 days ago · France. Illusions perdues — in English, Lost Illusions — is a serial novel written by the French writer Honoré de Balzac between 1837 and 1843. It consists of three parts, starting in provincial France, thereafter moving to Paris, and finally returning to the provinces. The book resembles another of Balzac's greatest novels, La ...
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4 days ago · Usury. Usury ( / ˈjuːʒəri /) [1] [2] is the practice of making loans that are seen as unfairly enriching the lender. The term may be used in a moral sense—condemning taking advantage of others' misfortunes—or in a legal sense, where an interest rate is charged in excess of the maximum rate that is allowed by law.
3 days ago · Gobseck stanowi kolejne w Komedii ludzkiej zastosowanie techniki „opowieści w opowieści”, gdyż najważniejsze przesłanie dzieła zawiera się nie w głównej sytuacji fabularnej (rozmowa w domu pani de Grandlieu), ale w opowieści przekazywanej przez bohatera, Derville’a. Analiza działalności lichwiarza należy do tej grupy utworów ...
Jul 17, 2024 · In the Latin Quarter we meet an escaped convict, a mentally fragile marquis down on his luck, and the slimy title character of Gobseck (1830), a moneylender who brags: “I like to leave mud on a rich man’s carpet; it is not petty spite, I like to make them feel a touch of the claws of Necessity.”
Jul 4, 2024 · Walter Hasenclever (born July 8, 1890, Aachen, Ger.—died June 21, 1940, Les Milles, France) was a German Expressionist poet and dramatist whose work is a protest against bourgeois materialism and the war-making state. After studying briefly at the Universities of Oxford and Lausanne, Hasenclever in 1909 went to the University of Leipzig ...
1 day ago · Honoré de Balzac, nom de plume d' Honoré Balzac n 1, né le 20 mai 1799 ( 1er prairial an VII du calendrier républicain) à Tours et mort le 18 août 1850 à Paris, est un écrivain français. Romancier, critique d'art, dramaturge, critique littéraire, essayiste, journaliste et imprimeur, il a laissé l'une des plus imposantes œuvres ...
