The Harlot´s Progress, Vol. 2
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Excerpt from The Harlot´s Progress, Vol. 2: Splendeurs Et Miseres Des Courtisanes As has been noted in the Introduction to the first volume of the "Splendeurs et Miseres des Courtisanes," "La der-ni£re Incarnation de Vautrin," though forming, according to the author´s conception, an integral part of that work, stands in more ways than one aloof from it. It was much later written than the earlier parts, except "Ou menent les mauvais Chemins," and it was later written even than that. Moreover, it marks in two different ways a much maturer stage of the author´s ideas as to heroic convicts - a stage in which, I think, it is not fanciful to detect a considerable reduction of the gigantesque element and a substitution of something else for it. We may note this in two ways. In the earlier conception of the matter, as exemplified chiefly in "Ferragus" and "La Pere Goriot," the heroic element considerably dominates the practical. In the one Balzac had shown an ex-convict defying society and executing a sort of private justice or injustice, just as he pleased. In the other he had adopted (and had maintained still later in an apologetic epistle to a newspaper editor, which will be found in his works) a notion of the criminal as of a sort of puissance du mal pervading and dominating society itself. In the present book, or section of a book, which, it must never be forgotten, was one of his very latest, things are adjusted to a much more actual level. The thieves´-latin which it contains is only an indirect symptom of this. Ainsworth in England and others in France had anticipated him notably in this. But indirectly it shows us that he had come down many stages from his earlier heights. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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