It’s strange how literature finds its way into other mediums. The current French film festival includes a film of Balzac’s Lost Illusions which, together with The Splendours and Miseries of Courtesans, is one of the cornerstones of the longest and one of the greatest sequences of novels, La Comedie Humaine.
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