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Voyage de Paris à Java

Voyage de Paris à Java

ClassicsTravel
Pages
45
Published
1994
Language
French

Synopsis

A man decides the best way to escape his debts and elevate his social standing is to fake a long scientific voyage to Java. While his friends and creditors believe he is exploring the other side of the world, he is actually hiding out in a Parisian attic. This short, unfinished story is a sharp satire of social ambition and the ease of public deception.

Prose complexity
7/10

Vibe

ReflectiveSatiricalInformative
Morally GreySecret Identity

Genres

Classics Travel

About the author

H
Honoré de Balzac

Honoré de Balzac was a French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of almost 100 novels and plays collectively entitled La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the fall of Napoléon Bonaparte in 1815. ([Source][1].) [1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honor%C3%A9_de_Balzac

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