Rastignac et son art de parvenir
Resource
Fu Jen Studies : Literature & linguistics 39
Journal
Fu Jen Studies : Literature & linguistics
Journal Issue
39
Pages
-
Date Issued
2005
Date
2005
Author(s)
Abstract
In the nineteenth century, social ambition became an important theme for many French writers in their role as observers of society. Thus, there appear in the literature of this period characters driven by a will to succeed at any cost. All novelists of the age scatter throughout their works the various rules of the art of success, and it may well be this that constitutes their secret charm, giving readers the illusion that, by reading these novels, they learn about life itself. Balzac is one of the most systematic of these theoreticians of success. This...
Type
journal article