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... Vautrin , the quintessential outlaw and social rebel , and one of Balzac's most important and ambiguous characters . In the last part of Illusions perdues , Vautrin , disguised as the priest Carlos Herrera is traveling from Spain to ...
... Vautrin , the quintessential outlaw and social rebel , and one of Balzac's most important and ambiguous characters . In the last part of Illusions perdues , Vautrin , disguised as the priest Carlos Herrera is traveling from Spain to ...
Page 178
... Vautrin , even before he knew that Lucien had hanged himself instinctively felt pain in his own body when he sensed ... Vautrin's passion brings to life the phenomenon , that , Balzac writes , will be appreciated by women " qui ont senti ...
... Vautrin , even before he knew that Lucien had hanged himself instinctively felt pain in his own body when he sensed ... Vautrin's passion brings to life the phenomenon , that , Balzac writes , will be appreciated by women " qui ont senti ...
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... Vautrin is heartbroken , as all the other lovers in the Comédie Humaine who have lost the only person they really ... Vautrin's life after Lucien has died , Balzac has given us the means to imagine the reunion of his heroic character ...
... Vautrin is heartbroken , as all the other lovers in the Comédie Humaine who have lost the only person they really ... Vautrin's life after Lucien has died , Balzac has given us the means to imagine the reunion of his heroic character ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Ritual and Roleplaying in the World of the Hero | 11 |
Erotic Love and Egoism in the Age of Enlightenment | 117 |
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