: Honore de Balzac
: Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau
: The Floating Press
: 9781776538508
: 1
: CHF 3.10
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: Erzählende Literatur
: English
One of the unifying themes that wends its way through Honore de Balzac's immense body of work is the corrupting danger of greed -- and the often-absurd lengths to which people will go to secure material wealth. In the wonderful novel Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau, the title character starts out as a successful perfume-maker who is gradually lured to the dark side by the promise of ill-gotten gains.