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Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau (Hardcover)

by Honore de Balzac (Author), Katharine Prescott Wormeley (Translator)
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5.0 out of 5 stars A Fascinating Anatomy of a Bankruptcy, Sep 8 2000
By James Paris "Tarnmoor" (Los Angeles, CA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Rise And Fall Of Cesar Birotteau (Paperback)
No one knows more about money problems than Honore de Balzac. He lived most of his life one step from his creditors: his house in Paris even had a special exit for avoiding them. CESAR BIROTTEAU is the story of an honest perfumer who is done in by the smarmy du Tillet, a former employee whom he had fired for embezzlement, who works in secret to take his revenge.

Birotteau is lured into overextending himself and falls hard. True to his fascination with money and its epedemiology, Balzac delves into the guts of this bankruptcy and shows you all the forces at work to destroy an innocent man.

This time, the innocent man prevails. Thanks to the help of Anselme Popinot, a brilliant young marketer in love with his daughter, Birotteau is able to pay back every cent, winning honor for himself after his life appeared to be all but over.

This is one of Balzac's greatest novels. Birotteau is an honorable gentleman of the old school, a bit obtuse perhaps, but out of his depth among the wild speculations of the reign of Charles X. Watching these processes ensnare him is repellingly fascinating -- and Balzac spares us nothing.

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