Illusions perdues portrays the birth of “fake news”: newspapers entering into a relationship with commerce, hypocrisy, and cowardice. At the same time, in the preface to the third part of the novel, Balzac names the print media as one of the great defenders of freedom. How can the thesis of the novel be reconciled with the novelist’s response to the deputy Chapuys-Montlaville? How did Balzac understand the status of the novel in the era of industrial literature?
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques
ISBN:978-2-406-08262-0
EAN:9782406082620
ISSN: 2649-2571
DOI: 10.15122/isbn.978-2-406-08262-0.p.0169
Publisher: Classiques Garnier
Online publication: 07-27-2018
Periodicity: Annual
Language: French
Keyword: Newspaper, serial novel, Chapuys-Montlaville, novel and democracy, Rousseau