Lost Illusions – Audiobook

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Lost Illusions is one of Honoré de Balzac's most ambitious novels, tracing the rise and fall of Lucien Chardon, a young poet longing for fame and recognition. Leaving his provincial town for Paris, Lucien discovers a world filled with literary rivalries, corrupt journalism, shifting loyalties, and the seductive promise of success. His journey becomes a powerful meditation on ambition, vanity, and moral collapse. Balzac exposes with dazzling precision the mechanisms of the press, the ambitions of writers, and the harsh contradictions of Parisian society. The novel's intertwined stories — artistic struggle, social climbing, manipulation, betrayal — give it the scope of a modern epic and the emotional weight of tragedy. A towering achievement of La Comédie humaine, Lost Illusions remains a timeless exploration of human desire and the dangerous allure of glory. It is considered one of the greatest French novels ever written.

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