Bibliography
- Texts and translations
- 1837: Illusions perdues (Lost Illusions), Paris: Werdet
- 1839: Un Grand homme de province à Paris (A Great Man of the Provinces in Paris), Paris: Souverain
- 1843: Ève et David (Ève and David), Paris: Furne
- 1843: Illusions perdues (Lost Illusions), Paris: Furne
- 1976: Lost Illusions; translated by Herbert J. Hunt (Penguin Classics.) Harmondsworth: Penguin Books
The titles of the various constituent parts of Illusions perdues, which came out over a period of six years, vary considerably from edition to edition and also because of pre-original publication in serialized form. The eventual title of Part III, Les Souffrances de l’inventeur (The Inventor’s Sufferings), was superimposed by Balzac onto his personal copy of the Furne edition of La Comédie humaine.
- Works of criticism
- Adamson, Donald (1981) "Illusions perdues", London: Grant & Cutler
- Baron, Anne-Marie (1996) "Artifices de mise en scène et art de l’illusion chez Balzac", in: L’Année balzacienne, 1996, pp. 23–35
- Bérard, Suzanne-Jean (1961) La Genèse d’un roman de Balzac: "Illusions perdues", 2 vols, Paris: Colin
- Borderie, Régine (2005) "Esthétique du bizarre: Illusions perdues", in: L’Année balzacienne, 2005, pp. 175–98
- Lukács, György (1967) "Illusions perdues", in Balzac et le réalisme français, Paris: Maspéro, pp. 48–68
- Prendergast, Christopher (1978) Balzac: fiction and melodrama. London: Edward Arnold
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