• 内容简介
  • 取材于原籍法国的爱尔兰作家梅图林的小说《漫游者梅莫特》(1820)。借用魔鬼赋予人以享乐的无限权力来收买灵魂的故事,批判泛滥成灾的享乐主义、金钱至上等思想。作品中的主要情节,如交易所的银行家、经纪人转买这种权力,大赚其钱,而那些小职员、穷青年则不懂这“生财之道”,反而成了魔鬼的牺牲品,等等,都着眼于对资产阶级“买空卖空”投机事业的尖锐讽刺。

  • 作者简介
  • 巴尔扎克是19世纪法国伟大的批判现实主义作家,欧洲批判现实主义文学的奠基人和杰出代表。一生创作96部长、中、短篇小说和随笔,总名为《人间喜剧》。其中代表作为《欧也妮•葛朗台》、《高老头》。100多年来,他的作品传遍了全世界,对世界文学的发展和人类进步产生了巨大的影响。

    Honoré de Balzac was a French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of short stories and novels collectively entitled Human Comedy, which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the 1815 fall of Napoleon Bonaparte.Due to his keen observation of detail and unfiltered representation of society, Balzac is regarded as one of the founders of realism in European literature. He is renowned for his multifaceted characters, who are morally ambiguous.

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