Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau

Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau
Author: Honoré de Balzac
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 434
Release: 2023-08-31
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3387015461

Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau

Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau
Author: Honore de Balzac
Publisher: The Floating Press
Total Pages: 383
Release: 2014-06-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1776538498

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.

Law and Literature

Law and Literature
Author: María José Falcón y Tella
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2016-04-26
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9004304355

María José Falcón y Tella invites us on a fascinating journey through the world of law and literature, travelling through the different eras and exploring eternal and as such current issues such as justice, power, resistance, vengeance, rights, and duties. This is an unending conversation, which brings us back to Sophocles and Dickens, Cervantes and Kafka, Dostoyevsky and Melville, among many others. There are many ways to approach the concept of “Law and Literature”. In the classical manner, the author distinguishes three paths: the Law of Literature, involving a technical approach to the literary theme; Law as Literature, a hermeneutical and rhetorical approach to examining legal texts; and finally, Law in Literature, which is undoubtedly the most fertile and documented perspective (the fundamental part of the work focusses on this direction). This timely volume offers an introduction to this enormous field of study, which was born in the United States over a century ago and is currently taking root in the European continent.